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  • Title: Somatic and germline mutations of the BRCA2 gene in sporadic ovarian cancer.
    Author: Foster KA, Harrington P, Kerr J, Russell P, DiCioccio RA, Scott IV, Jacobs I, Chenevix-Trench G, Ponder BA, Gayther SA.
    Journal: Cancer Res; 1996 Aug 15; 56(16):3622-5. PubMed ID: 8705994.
    Abstract:
    The breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility gene BRCA2 has recently been isolated. A role for BRCA2 in sporadic breast and ovarian cancer has been suggested by loss of heterozygosity (LOH) studies which show frequent LOH in the BRCA2 region at chromosome 13q12. In addition, the observation of nonrandom loss of the wild-type chromosome in a breast/ovarian cancer family which shows linkage to BRCA2 suggests it may act as a tumor suppressor gene. To determine the extent of somatic alteration involving BRCA2 in sporadic ovarian cancer, 50 tumors were analyzed for mutations throughout the entire BRCA2 coding region. Mutations predicted to result in truncation of the BRCA2 protein were detected in four tumors. Analysis of germline DNA revealed two of these alterations to be of somatic origin. In addition, all four tumors exhibited loss of the second BRCA2 allele as predicted by Knudson's hypothesis for a tumor suppressor gene. These results suggest that, as is the case with BRCA1, somatic mutations of BRCA2 are infrequent in sporadic ovarian cancer, despite the relatively high frequency of LOH detected around the BRCA2 locus.
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