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Spectrum and Frequency of Germline FANCM Protein-Truncating Variants in 44,803 European Female Breast Cancer Cases.

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Billaud, Amandine 
Wang, Qin 
Bolla, Manjeet K 

Abstract

FANCM germline protein truncating variants (PTVs) are moderate-risk factors for ER-negative breast cancer. We previously described the spectrum of FANCM PTVs in 114 European breast cancer cases. In the present, larger cohort, we report the spectrum and frequency of four common and 62 rare FANCM PTVs found in 274 carriers detected among 44,803 breast cancer cases. We confirmed that p.Gln1701* was the most common PTV in Northern Europe with lower frequencies in Southern Europe. In contrast, p.Gly1906Alafs12 was the most common PTV in Southern Europe with decreasing frequencies in Central and Northern Europe. We verified that p.Arg658 was prevalent in Central Europe and had highest frequencies in Eastern Europe. We also confirmed that the fourth most common PTV, p.Gln498Thrfs*7, might be a founder variant from Lithuania. Based on the frequency distribution of the carriers of rare PTVs, we showed that the FANCM PTVs spectra in Southwestern and Central Europe were much more heterogeneous than those from Northeastern Europe. These findings will inform the development of more efficient FANCM genetic testing strategies for breast cancer cases from specific European populations.

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Funder: Fondazione Umberto Veronesi to Gisella Figlioli


Funder: Government of Canada


Funder: Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Ministère de l’Économie et de l’Innovation du Québec


Funder: National Cancer Institute Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health


Funder: Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport


Funder: ELAN-Fond of the University Hospital of Erlangen


Funder: NIHR Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre, Guy’s & St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust


Funder: King’s College London


Funder: Oxford Biomedical Research Centre


Funder: Programa Grupos Emergentes, Cancer Genetics Unit, Instituto de Investigacion Biomedica Galicia Sur. Xerencia de Xestion Integrada de Vigo-SERGAS, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain


Funder: Dietmar-Hopp Foundation


Funder: Helmholtz Society


Funder: German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)


Funder: University of Crete


Funder: Fondation de France


Funder: Institut National du Cancer (INCa)


Funder: Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer


Funder: Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire, de l’Alimentation, de l’Environnement et du Travail (ANSES)


Funder: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)


Funder: Chief Physician Johan Boserup and Lise Boserup Fund


Funder: Danish Medical Research Council


Funder: Herlev and Gentofte Hospital


Funder: Instituto de Salud Carlos III, the Red Temática de Investigación Cooperativa en Cáncer


Funder: Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart


Funder: Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Heidelberg


Funder: Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance


Funder: Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum (IPA), Bochum


Funder: Department of Internal Medicine, Johanniter GmbH Bonn, Johanniter Krankenhaus, Bonn, Germany


Funder: Lower Saxonian Cancer Society


Funder: Claudia von Schilling Foundation for Breast Cancer Research


Funder: Rudolf Bartling Foundation


Funder: Helsinki University Hospital Research Fund


Funder: Sigrid Juselius Foundation


Funder: Cancer Foundation Finland


Funder: Friends of Hannover Medical School


Funder: Stockholm County Council


Funder: Karolinska Institutet


Funder: Swedish Cancer Society


Funder: The Gustav V Jubilee foundation


Funder: Bert von Kantzows foundation


Funder: Märit and Hans Rausings Initiative Against Breast Cancer


Funder: Kuopio University Hospital


Funder: Cancer Fund of North Savo


Funder: Finnish Cancer Organizations


Funder: University of Eastern Finland


Funder: National Breast Cancer Foundation


Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)


Funder: Queensland Cancer Fund


Funder: Cancer Councils of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia


Funder: Cancer Foundation of Western Australia


Funder: Cancer Council Victoria


Funder: Cancer Council New South Wales


Funder: Cancer Council South Australia


Funder: Cancer Council Tasmania


Funder: Hamburg Cancer Society


Funder: Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics


Funder: Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC)


Funder: VicHealth


Funder: K.G. Jebsen Centre for Breast Cancer Research


Funder: Norwegian Cancer Society


Funder: Survey and Biospecimen Shared Resource


Funder: National Cancer Institute, Department of Health and Human Services, USA


Funder: Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health, NCI, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics


Funder: Intramural Research Program of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics


Funder: Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health


Funder: Agency for Science, Technology and Research of Singapore (A*STAR)


Funder: Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation


Funder: UK National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre at the University of Cambridge


Funder: NHS in the East of England


Funder: Women’s Cancer Center at the Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI)


Funder: Utah Population Database (UPDB)


Funder: Utah Cancer Registry (UCR)


Funder: University of Utah HCI


Funder: Huntsman Cancer Foundation


Funder: University of Utah

Keywords

FANCM PTVs spectrum, PTVs, breast cancer predisposition, breast cancer risk factors, protein truncating variants

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MDPI AG
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European Commission Horizon 2020 (H2020) Societal Challenges (633784)
European Commission Horizon 2020 (H2020) Societal Challenges (634935)
Wellcome Trust (203477/Z/16/Z)
Cancer Research Uk (None)
Cancer Research Uk (None)