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A tandem duplication of BRCA1 exons 1–19 through DHX8 exon 2 in four families with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to characterize a novel structural variant, a large duplication involving exons 1–19 of the BRCA1 gene in four independent families, and to provide diagnostically valuable information including the position of the breakpoints as well as clues to its clinical significance.

Methods

The duplication of exons 1–19 of the BRCA1 gene was initially detected by routine laboratory testing including MLPA analysis and next generation sequencing. For detailed characterization we performed array-comparative genome hybridization analysis, fluorescent in situ hybridization, next generation mapping, and long-distance PCR for break-point sequencing.

Results

Our data revealed a tandem duplication on chromosome 17 that encompassed 357 kb and included exons 1–19 of the BRCA1 gene and the genes NBR2, NBR1, TMEM106A, LOC100130581, ARL4D, MIR2117 up to parts of the DHX8 gene. This structural variant appeared as a tandem duplication with breakpoints in intron 19 of the BRCA1 gene and in intron 3 of the DHX8 gene (HGVS:chr17(hg19):g.41210776_41568516dup). Segregation analysis indicated that this structural rearrangement is phased in trans with a known pathogenic exon deletion of the BRCA1 gene in one family.

Conclusions

The copy number variation initially recognized as duplication of exon 1–19 of the BRCA1 gene by MLPA analysis is a structural variation with breakpoints in the BRCA1 and DHX8 genes. Although currently to be classified as a variant of unknown significance, our family data indicates that this duplication may be a benign variation or at least of markedly reduced penetrance since it occurs in trans with another known fully pathogenic variant in the BRCA1 gene.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the patients and their families for supporting this study and Marcel Tauscher and Hildegard Frye-Boukhriss for excellent technical assistance.

Funding

This work was funded in parts by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH to B.S. and D.S.

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  1. Dorothea Mark

    Present address: Hämatologie/Medizinische Onkologie, Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

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  1. Department of Human Genetics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

    Chen Du, Dorothea Mark, Brigitte Pabst, Susanne Morlot, Caroline Scholz, Bernd Auber, Thomas Illig, Brigitte Schlegelberger & Doris Steinemann

  2. Centre for Hereditary Breast- and Ovarian Cancer, Center for Integrated Oncology (CIO), Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Barbara Wappenschmidt, Kerstin Rhiem & Rita Schmutzler

  3. LADR Medizinisches Versorgungszentrum Recklinghausen GbR, Recklinghausen, Germany

    Beatrix Böckmann

  4. Bionano Genomics, Inc, San Diego, CA, USA

    Saki Chan & Han Cao

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Du, C., Mark, D., Wappenschmidt, B. et al. A tandem duplication of BRCA1 exons 1–19 through DHX8 exon 2 in four families with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome. Breast Cancer Res Treat 172, 561–569 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-018-4957-x

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