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. 2023 Jan 4:13:999329.
doi: 10.3389/fgene.2022.999329. eCollection 2022.

SDHB exon 1 deletion: A recurrent germline mutation in Colombian patients with pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas

María Carolina Manotas  1 , Ana Lucía Rivera  1 , Ana Milena Gómez  1 , Patricia Abisambra  2 , Gonzalo Guevara  1 , Vilma Medina  1 , Sandra Tapiero  1 , Antonio Huertas  1 , Julián Riaño-Moreno  1 , Juan Carlos Mejía  1 , Angélica María Gonzalez-Clavijo  1 , Mireya Tapiero-García  1 , Andrés Arturo Cuéllar-Cuéllar  1 , Luis Felipe Fierro-Maya  1 , María Carolina Sanabria-Salas  1   3
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SDHB exon 1 deletion: A recurrent germline mutation in Colombian patients with pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas

María Carolina Manotas et al. Front Genet. .

Abstract

Pheochromocytomas (PCCs) and paragangliomas (PGLs) (known as PPGL in combination) are rare neuroendocrine tumors of the adrenal medulla and extra-adrenal ganglia. About 40% of the patients with PPGL have a hereditary predisposition. Here we present a case-series of 19 unrelated Colombian patients with a clinical diagnosis of PPGL tumors that underwent germline genetic testing as part of the Hereditary Cancer Program developed at the Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, Colombia (INC-C), the largest reference cancer center in the country. Ten of 19 patients (52.63%) were identified as carriers of a pathogenic/likely pathogenic (P/LP) germline variant in a known susceptibility gene. The majority of the P/LP variants were in the SDHB gene (9/10): one corresponded to a nonsense variant c.268C>T (p.Arg90*) and eight cases were found to be carriers of a recurrent CNV consisting of a large deletion of one copy of exon 1, explaining 42% (8/19) of all the affected cases. Only one additional case was found to be a carrier of a missense mutation in the VHL gene: c.355T>C (p.Phe119Leu). Our study highlights the major role of SDHB in Colombian patients with a clinical diagnosis of PGL/PCC tumors and supports the recommendation of including the analysis of large deletions/duplications of the SDHB gene as part of the genetic counselling to improve the detection rate of hereditary cases and their clinical care.

Keywords: germline mutation; hereditary; human; neoplastic syndromes; paragangliomas; pheochromocytomas; succinate dehydrogenase subunit B.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

Figures

FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
Recurrent CNV in the SDHB gene in Colombians consisting in a large deletion of one copy of exon 1. (A) The graphic shows the copy number of the carrier (dots in color blue/red) and if it is similar (blue dots) or different (red dots) compared to the median of the copy numbers of each exon (1–8) among 8 different samples (gray dots) included in the same run. Graphic generated and extracted from SOPHIA Genetics. (B) Corresponding graphic obtained with MLPA confirmatory assay.
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