Mutational Analysis of BRCA1 Gene in Ovarian and Breast‐ovarian Cancer Families in Japan
Open Access
- 1 April 1997
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Japanese Journal of Cancer Research
- Vol. 88 (4) , 407-413
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1349-7006.1997.tb00397.x
Abstract
We analyzed the alteration of BRCAI in DNA obtained from 83 individuals of 13 Japanese site‐specific ovarian cancer families and 6 breast‐ovarian cancer families. Six germline mutations were detected in 7 families, which consisted of 4 breast‐ovarian cancer and 3 site‐specific ovarian cancer families, by single‐strand conformation polymorphism analysis, followed by direct sequence determination. The mutations included three framcshifts, two nonsense mutations, and one missense mutation causing loss of a zinc‐binding motif. The frequency of loss of heterozygosity at the microsatellite markers on the BRCAI gene was 57% (8 of 14 cases) in site‐specific ovarian cancer families, and 100% (6 of 6 cases) in breast‐ovarian cancer families. All tumors of the patients carrying a mutation of BRCAI showed deletion of wild‐type alleles, implicating BRCAI as a tumor suppressor gene. Tbese results suggest tbat germline mutations of the BRCAI gene play an important role in the carcinogen‐esis of breast and/or ovarian cancer in a majority of breast‐ovarian cancer families and in some site‐specific ovarian cancer families.Keywords
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