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Data Quality Control and Data Analysis of Body-Scanner Measurement Values in Children and Adolescents
LIFE Child

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Introduction LIFE child as a part of the 'Leipzig Research Centre for Civilization Diseases' is a longitudinal cohort study aiming, inter alia, at monitoring normal development in children and … adolescents from fetal life to adulthood. As an important part of the study, anthropometric dimensions are measured via classic methods, e.g. stadiometer or tape measure (ca. 15 items), but also via 3D body scanner technology (ca. 150 items). Because of missing standards data quality control and analysis of the latter one is a particular challenge. Methods We address the problem of absent reference values by using the data itself as a reference sample. Applying the LMS-method using the VGAM/GAMLSS packages [XXX] on a reference sample which is large enough results in age and gender corrected standard deviation scores (SDS) respectively percentile curves. A combination of variable clustering and clustering of values using these SDS is applied to the detect groups of dependend variables and peculiar cases respectively. Results In LIFE child the current reference sample consists of around 4000 scans of 1700 children. The age dependend l, m, and s values for each item are generated by dedicated R-routines and stored in a relational database system. The transformation algorithm by Cole is implemented as database function and dynamically applied on all associated raw data. Conspiciuous values can be detected using the SDS itself or the SDS in comparison with the belonging variable cluster and/or taking into account the follow-up data of the respective participant. These values can be reported and visualized using automated routines.

Authors: M. Vogel, A.L. Fischer, C. Bucher, W. Kiess, Toralf Kirsten

Date Published: 1st Nov 2014

Publication Type: Not specified

Diabetes and hypertension contribute to normal-appearing white matter microstructural variability in the brain
LIFE - Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases

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Background and objectives: Obesity has been associated with increased risk of dementia. Grey and white matter (WM) of the brain are commonly used as biomarkers for early detection of dementia. However, … considering WM, available neuroimaging studies had mainly small sample size and yielded less conclusive results (Kullmann et al., 2015). Recently, a positive correlation between obesity and fractional anisotropy (FA) in a middle age group was reported (Birdsill et al. 2017). Furthermore, obesity is related to many medical problems such as diabetes and hypertension. Diabetes and hypertension were found to be correlated with brain structures independently (de Leeuw et al., 2002; Weinstein et al., 2015). Yet, studies rarely investigated non-lesion WM microstructure and its association with diabetes and blood pressure. Therefore we aim to investigate the relation between abdominal obesity, diabetes, blood pressure and WM microstructural variability in a large cohort of community-dwelling healthy adults. Methods: The sample included dementia-free participants (mean age 55 ± 16 years; 50.7% women) of the LIFE cohort with brain MRI scans (n = 1255). WM microstructure was measured with diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). Mean FA was derived from the individual WM skeleton processed by tract-based-spatial-statistic method. Linear regression models were used to assess the relationships between diabetes, blood pressure, waist to hip ratio (WHR) and DTI parameters. Adjustments were made for age, sex, education and Apoe4. Results: The preliminary result indicated diabetes, systolic blood pressure and WHR were independently associated with lower FA, and diabetes explained the most variance besides age. Subgroup analysis revealed both systolic blood pressure and WHR were negatively associated with mean FA in the non-diabetes group (n=1101). Conclusions: The preliminary result of our study indicates that diabetes accelerated brain aging on directional diffusion of WM. Abdominal fat and blood pressure were associated with WM variabilities independently from age, sex and diabetes. With subsequent analysis of additional DTI measures, blood parameters, WM hyperintensity maps and voxel-based microstructural WM “integrity”, we aim to further characterize the associations between obesity, diabetes, blood pressure and WM microstructure. This will contribute to the existing literature and help to disentangle the underlying mechanism.

Authors: Rui Zhang, Frauke Beyer, L. Lampe, T. Luck, S. G. Riedel-Heller, M. Stumvoll, Markus Löffler, M. L. Schroeter, A. Villringer, A. V. Witte

Date Published: 2017

Publication Type: Not specified

Human Diseases: diabetes mellitus, obesity, hypertension

Diagnosis of Li-Fraumeni Syndrome: Differentiating TP53 germline mutations from clonal hematopoiesis: Results of the observational AGO-TR1 trial
GC-HBOC - German Consortium for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer

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The Li-Fraumeni cancer predisposition syndrome (LFS1) presents with a variety of tumor types and the TP53 gene is covered by most diagnostic cancer gene panels. We demonstrate that deleterious TP53 … variants identified in blood-derived DNA of 523 patients with ovarian cancer (AGO-TR1 trial) were not causal for the patients’ ovarian cancer in three out of six TP53-positive cases. In three out of six patients, deleterious TP53 mutations were identified with low variant fractions in blood-derived DNA but not in the tumor of the patient seeking advice. The analysis of the TP53 and PPM1D genes, both intimately involved in chemotherapy-induced and/or age-related clonal hematopoiesis (CH), in 523 patients and 1,053 age-matched female control individuals revealed that CH represents a frequent event following chemotherapy, affecting 26 of the 523 patients enrolled (5.0%). Considering that TP53 mutations may arise from chemotherapy-induced CH, our findings help to avoid false-positive genetic diagnoses of LFS1.

Authors: Konstantin Weber-Lassalle, Philipp Harter, Jan Hauke, Corinna Ernst, Stefan Kommoss, Frederik Marmé, Nana Weber-Lassalle, Katharina Prieske, Dimo Dietrich, Julika Borde, Esther Pohl-Rescigno, Alexander Reuss, Beyhan Ataseven, Christoph Engel, Julia C. Stingl, Rita K. Schmutzler, Eric Hahnen

Date Published: 1st Dec 2018

Publication Type: Journal article

Human Diseases: hereditary breast ovarian cancer syndrome

Differential effects of enriched environment at work on cognitive decline in old age.
LIFE - Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases

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OBJECTIVES: The aim of the present study was to investigate how different mentally demanding work conditions during the professional life-i.e., enriched environments at work-might influence the rate … of cognitive decline in old age. METHODS: Individuals (n = 1,054) of the Leipzig Longitudinal Study of the Aged, a representative population-based cohort study of individuals aged 75 years and older, underwent cognitive testing via the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) in up to 6 measurement waves. Type and level of mentally demanding work conditions in the participants' former professional life were classified based on the O*NET job descriptor database. RESULTS: In multivariate mixed-model analyses (controlling for sociodemographic and health-related factors), a high level of mentally demanding work tasks stimulating verbal intelligence was significantly associated with a better cognitive functioning at baseline (on average 5 MMSE points higher) as well as a lower rate of cognitive decline (on average 2 MMSE points less) over the 8-year follow-up period compared with a low level. The rate of cognitive decline in old age was also significantly lower (on average 3 MMSE points less) in individuals who had a high level of mentally demanding work tasks stimulating executive functions than those who had a low level. CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest that a professional life enriched with work tasks stimulating verbal intelligence and executive functions may help to sustain a good cognitive functioning in old age (75+ years). The findings thus emphasize that today's challenging work conditions may also promote positive health effects.

Authors: F. S. Then, T. Luck, M. Luppa, H. H. Konig, M. C. Angermeyer, S. G. Riedel-Heller

Date Published: 26th May 2015

Publication Type: Not specified

Human Diseases: dementia

Differential Risk of Incident Alzheimer's Disease Dementia in Stable Versus Unstable Patterns of Subjective Cognitive Decline.
LIFE Adult

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BACKGROUND: It is unknown whether longitudinal stability versus instability in subjective cognitive decline (SCD) is a modifying factor of the association between SCD and risk of incident Alzheimer's … disease (AD) dementia. OBJECTIVE: We tested the modifying role of temporal stability of the SCD report on AD dementia risk in cognitively normal elderly individuals. METHODS: We analyzed data of 1,990 cognitively normal participants from the longitudinal AgeCoDe Study. We assessed SCD with/without associated worries both at baseline and first follow-up 18 months later. Participants were then classified either as (a) Controls (CO, with no SCD at both baseline and follow-up 1, n = 613), (b) inconsistent SCD (with SCD reported only at baseline or at follow-up 1, n = 637), (c) consistent SCD but without/or with inconsistent worries (n = 610) or (d) consistent SCD with worries (n = 130). We estimated incident AD dementia risk over up to 6 years for each group with Cox-Proportional Hazard Regression analyses adjusted for age, gender, education, ApoE4 status, and depression. RESULTS: Compared to CO, inconsistent SCD was not associated with increased risk of incident AD dementia. In contrast, risk was doubled in the group of consistent SCD without/ with inconsistent worries, and almost 4-fold in the group of consistent SCD with worries. These results could be replicated when using follow-up 1 to follow-up 2 response patterns for group definition. CONCLUSION: These findings suggest that longitudinal stability versus instability is an important modifying factor of the association between SCD and AD dementia risk. Worrisome SCD that is also consistently reported over time is associated with greatly increased risk of AD dementia.

Authors: S. Wolfsgruber, L. Kleineidam, M. Wagner, E. Mosch, H. Bickel, D. Lupsilonhmann, A. Ernst, B. Wiese, S. Steinmann, H. H. Konig, C. Brettschneider, T. Luck, J. Stein, S. Weyerer, J. Werle, M. Pentzek, A. Fuchs, W. Maier, M. Scherer, S. G. Riedel-Heller, F. Jessen

Date Published: 4th Oct 2016

Publication Type: Journal article

Human Diseases: dementia, Alzheimer's disease

Disentangling the neural correlates of corticobasal syndrome and corticobasal degeneration with systematic and quantitative ALE meta-analyses.
LIFE Adult

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Corticobasal degeneration is a scarce neurodegenerative disease, which can only be confirmed by histopathological examination. Reported to be associated with various clinical syndromes, its classical … clinical phenotype is corticobasal syndrome. Due to the rareness of corticobasal syndrome/corticobasal degeneration and low numbers of patients included in single studies, meta-analyses are particularly suited to disentangle features of the clinical syndrome and histopathology. Using PubMed, we identified 11 magnetic resonance imaging studies measuring atrophy in 22 independent cohorts with 200 patients contrasted to 318 healthy controls. The anatomic likelihood estimation method was applied to reveal affected brain regions across studies. Corticobasal syndrome was related to gray matter loss in the basal ganglia/thalamus, frontal, parietal, and temporal lobes. In corticobasal degeneration patients, atrophy in the thalamus, frontal, temporal, and occipital lobes were found. Finally, in a conjunction analysis, the bilateral thalamus, the bilateral posterior frontomedian cortex, posterior midcingulate cortex and premotor area/supplementary motor area, and the left posterior superior and middle frontal gyrus/precentral gyrus were identified as areas associated with both, corticobasal syndrome and corticobasal degeneration. Remarkably, atrophy in the premotor area/supplementary motor area and posterior midcingulate/frontomedian cortex seems to be specific for corticobasal syndrome/corticobasal degeneration, whereas atrophy in the thalamus and the left posterior superior and middle frontal gyrus/precentral gyrus are also associated with other neurodegenerative diseases according to anatomic likelihood estimation method meta-analyses. Our study creates a new conceptual framework to understand, and distinguish between clinical features (corticobasal syndrome) and histopathological findings (corticobasal degeneration) by powerful data-driven meta-analytic approaches. Furthermore, it proposes regional-specific atrophy as an imaging biomarker for diagnosis of corticobasal syndrome/corticobasal degeneration ante-mortem.

Authors: F. Albrecht, S. Bisenius, R. Morales Schaack, J. Neumann, M. L. Schroeter

Date Published: 27th Jun 2017

Publication Type: Journal article

Human Diseases: neurodegenerative disease

Dissecting the genetics of the human transcriptome identifies novel trait-related trans-eQTLs and corroborates the regulatory relevance of non-protein coding locidagger.
Genetical Statistics and Systems Biology, LIFE Heart

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Genetics of gene expression (eQTLs or expression QTLs) has proved an indispensable tool for understanding biological pathways and pathomechanisms of trait-associated SNPs. However, power of most … genome-wide eQTL studies is still limited. We performed a large eQTL study in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of 2112 individuals increasing the power to detect trans-effects genome-wide. Going beyond univariate SNP-transcript associations, we analyse relations of eQTLs to biological pathways, polygenetic effects of expression regulation, trans-clusters and enrichment of co-localized functional elements. We found eQTLs for about 85% of analysed genes, and 18% of genes were trans-regulated. Local eSNPs were enriched up to a distance of 5 Mb to the transcript challenging typically implemented ranges of cis-regulations. Pathway enrichment within regulated genes of GWAS-related eSNPs supported functional relevance of identified eQTLs. We demonstrate that nearest genes of GWAS-SNPs might frequently be misleading functional candidates. We identified novel trans-clusters of potential functional relevance for GWAS-SNPs of several phenotypes including obesity-related traits, HDL-cholesterol levels and haematological phenotypes. We used chromatin immunoprecipitation data for demonstrating biological effects. Yet, we show for strongly heritable transcripts that still little trans-chromosomal heritability is explained by all identified trans-eSNPs; however, our data suggest that most cis-heritability of these transcripts seems explained. Dissection of co-localized functional elements indicated a prominent role of SNPs in loci of pseudogenes and non-coding RNAs for the regulation of coding genes. In summary, our study substantially increases the catalogue of human eQTLs and improves our understanding of the complex genetic regulation of gene expression, pathways and disease-related processes.

Authors: H. Kirsten, H. Al-Hasani, L. Holdt, A. Gross, F. Beutner, K. Krohn, K. Horn, P. Ahnert, R. Burkhardt, K. Reiche, J. Hackermuller, M. Loffler, D. Teupser, J. Thiery, M. Scholz

Date Published: 15th Aug 2015

Publication Type: Journal article

Dissociation of amyloid biomarkers in PET and CSF in Alzheimer's disease: a case report.
LIFE Adult

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BACKGROUND: Recently, biomarkers have been suggested to be incorporated into diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Regarding disease-specific brain amyloid-beta deposition these comprise … low amyloid-beta 1-42 in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and positive positron emission tomography (PET) amyloid imaging, while neuronal degeneration is evidenced by high total and phosphorylated tau levels in CSF (t-/p-tau), regional hypometabolism ([(18)F]fluorodeoxyglucose PET, FDG-PET) and characteristic atrophy-patterns (magnetic resonance imaging, MRI). CASE PRESENTATION: Here we present a case of clinically and biomarker supported AD (CSF t-/p-tau, MRI, FDG-PET) in a 59-year-old Caucasian man in whom indicators of amyloid-beta deposition dissociated between CSF parameters and the respective PET imaging. CONCLUSIONS: Such cases highlight the necessity to better understand potential dissociations between PET and CSF data for amyloid-beta biomarkers, because they are currently considered interchangeably valid with regard to in-vivo evidence for AD pathology. This is more important since amyloid deposition markers can be considered a very first prognostic indicator of imminent AD, prior to neurodegenerative biomarkers and cognitive symptoms. The case illustrates the need for further longitudinal data on potential dissociations of AD biomarkers to devise recommendations for their better prognostic and diagnostic interpretation in the future.

Authors: M. L. Schroeter, S. Tiepolt, A. Marschhauser, A. Thone-Otto, K. T. Hoffmann, H. Barthel, H. Obrig, O. Sabri

Date Published: 26th Aug 2015

Publication Type: Not specified

Human Diseases: Alzheimer's disease

DNA glycosylases involved in base excision repair may be associated with cancer risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers
GC-HBOC - German Consortium for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer

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Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) in genes involved in the DNA Base Excision Repair (BER) pathway could be associated with cancer risk in carriers of mutations in the high-penetrance susceptibility … genes BRCA1 and BRCA2, given the relation of synthetic lethality that exists between one of the components of the BER pathway, PARP1 (poly ADP ribose polymerase), and both BRCA1 and BRCA2. In the present study, we have performed a comprehensive analysis of 18 genes involved in BER using a tagging SNP approach in a large series of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. 144 SNPs were analyzed in a two stage study involving 23,463 carriers from the CIMBA consortium (the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1 and BRCA2). Eleven SNPs showed evidence of association with breast and/or ovarian cancer at p\textless0.05 in the combined analysis. Four of the five genes for which strongest evidence of association was observed were DNA glycosylases. The strongest evidence was for rs1466785 in the NEIL2 (endonuclease VIII-like 2) gene (HR: 1.09, 95% CI (1.03-1.16), p = 2.7 \times 10(-3)) for association with breast cancer risk in BRCA2 mutation carriers, and rs2304277 in the OGG1 (8-guanine DNA glycosylase) gene, with ovarian cancer risk in BRCA1 mutation carriers (HR: 1.12 95%CI: 1.03-1.21, p = 4.8 \times 10(-3)). DNA glycosylases involved in the first steps of the BER pathway may be associated with cancer risk in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers and should be more comprehensively studied.

Authors: Ana Osorio, Roger L. Milne, Karoline Kuchenbaecker, Tereza Vaclová, Guillermo Pita, Rosario Alonso, Paolo Peterlongo, Ignacio Blanco, Miguel de La Hoya, Mercedes Duran, Orland Díez, Teresa Ramón y Cajal, Irene Konstantopoulou, Cristina Martínez-Bouzas, Raquel Andrés Conejero, Penny Soucy, Lesley McGuffog, Daniel Barrowdale, Andrew Lee, Swe-Brca, Brita Arver, Johanna Rantala, Niklas Loman, Hans Ehrencrona, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Mary S. Beattie, Susan M. Domchek, Katherine Nathanson, Timothy R. Rebbeck, Banu K. Arun, Beth Y. Karlan, Christine Walsh, Jenny Lester, Esther M. John, Alice S. Whittemore, Mary B. Daly, Melissa Southey, John Hopper, Mary B. Terry, Saundra S. Buys, Ramunas Janavicius, Cecilia M. Dorfling, Elizabeth J. van Rensburg, Linda Steele, Susan L. Neuhausen, Yuan Chun Ding, Thomas v. O. Hansen, Lars Jønson, Bent Ejlertsen, Anne-Marie Gerdes, Mar Infante, Belén Herráez, Leticia Thais Moreno, Jeffrey N. Weitzel, Josef Herzog, Kisa Weeman, Siranoush Manoukian, Bernard Peissel, Daniela Zaffaroni, Giulietta Scuvera, Bernardo Bonanni, Frederique Mariette, Sara Volorio, Alessandra Viel, Liliana Varesco, Laura Papi, Laura Ottini, Maria Grazia Tibiletti, Paolo Radice, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Judy Garber, Steve Ellis, Debra Frost, Radka Platte, Elena Fineberg, Gareth Evans, Fiona Lalloo, Louise Izatt, Ros Eeles, Julian Adlard, Rosemarie Davidson, Trevor Cole, Diana Eccles, Jackie Cook, Shirley Hodgson, Carole Brewer, Marc Tischkowitz, Fiona Douglas, Mary Porteous, Lucy Side, Lisa Walker, Patrick Morrison, Alan Donaldson, John Kennedy, Claire Foo, Andrew K. Godwin, Rita Katharina Schmutzler, Barbara Wappenschmidt, Kerstin Rhiem, Christoph Engel, Alfons Meindl, Nina Ditsch, Norbert Arnold, Hans Jörg Plendl, Dieter Niederacher, Christian Sutter, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Doris Steinemann, Sabine Preisler-Adams, Karin Kast, Raymonda Varon-Mateeva, Andrea Gehrig, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Olga M. Sinilnikova, Sylvie Mazoyer, Francesca Damiola, Bruce Poppe, Kathleen Claes, Marion Piedmonte, Kathy Tucker, Floor Backes, Gustavo Rodríguez, Wendy Brewster, Katie Wakeley, Thomas Rutherford, Trinidad Caldés, Heli Nevanlinna, Kristiina Aittomäki, Matti A. Rookus, Theo A. M. van Os, Lizet van der Kolk, J. L. de Lange, Hanne E. J. Meijers-Heijboer, A. H. van der Hout, Christi J. van Asperen, Encarna B. Gómez Garcia, Nicoline Hoogerbrugge, J. Margriet Collée, Carolien H. M. van Deurzen, Rob B. van der Luijt, Peter Devilee, Hebon, Edith Olah, Conxi Lázaro, Alex Teulé, Mireia Menéndez, Anna Jakubowska, Cezary Cybulski, Jacek Gronwald, Jan Lubinski, Katarzyna Durda, Katarzyna Jaworska-Bieniek, Oskar Th Johannsson, Christine Maugard, Marco Montagna, Silvia Tognazzo, Manuel R. Teixeira, Sue Healey, Kconfab Investigators, Curtis Olswold, Lucia Guidugli, Noralane Lindor, Susan Slager, Csilla I. Szabo, Joseph Vijai, Mark Robson, Noah Kauff, Liying Zhang, Rohini Rau-Murthy, Anneliese Fink-Retter, Christian F. Singer, Christine Rappaport, Daphne Geschwantler Kaulich, Georg Pfeiler, Muy-Kheng Tea, Andreas Berger, Catherine M. Phelan, Mark H. Greene, Phuong L. Mai, Flavio Lejbkowicz, Irene Andrulis, Anna Marie Mulligan, Gord Glendon, Amanda Ewart Toland, Anders Bojesen, Inge Sokilde Pedersen, Lone Sunde, Mads Thomassen, Torben A. Kruse, Uffe Birk Jensen, Eitan Friedman, Yael Laitman, Shani Paluch Shimon, Jacques Simard, Douglas F. Easton, Kenneth Offit, Fergus J. Couch, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Antonis C. Antoniou, Javier Benitez

Date Published: 3rd Apr 2014

Publication Type: Journal article

Human Diseases: hereditary breast ovarian cancer syndrome

DNA methylation array analyses identified breast cancer-associated HYAL2 methylation in peripheral blood
GC-HBOC - German Consortium for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer

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Breast cancer (BC) is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality in women worldwide. Changes in DNA methylation in peripheral blood could be associated with malignancy at early stage. However, the … BC-associated DNA methylation signatures in peripheral blood were largely unknown. Here, we performed a genome-wide methylation screening and identified a BC-associated differentially methylated CpG site cg27091787 in the hyaluronoglucosaminidase 2 gene (HYAL2) (discovery round with 72 BC case and 24 controls: p = 2.61 \times 10(-9) adjusted for cell-type proportions). The substantially decreased methylation of cg27091787 in BC cases was confirmed in two validation rounds (first validation round with 338 BC case and 507 controls: p \textless 0.0001; second validation round with 189 BC case and 189 controls: p \textless 0.0001). In addition to cg27091787, the decreased methylation of a 650-bp CpG island shore of HYAL2 was also associated with increased risk of BC. Moreover, the expression and methylation of HYAL2 were inversely correlated with a p-value of 0.006. To note, the BC-associated decreased HYAL2 methylation was replicated in the T-cell fraction (p = 0.034). The cg27091787 methylation level enabled a powerful discrimination of early-stage BC cases (stages 0 and I) from healthy controls [area under curve (AUC) = 0.89], and was robust for the detection of BC in younger women as well (age \textless 50, AUC = 0.87). Our study reveals a strong association between decreased HYAL2 methylation in peripheral blood and BC, and provides a promising blood-based marker for the detection of early BC.

Authors: Rongxi Yang, Katrin Pfütze, Manuela Zucknick, Christian Sutter, Barbara Wappenschmidt, Frederik Marme, Bin Qu, Katarina Cuk, Christoph Engel, Sarah Schott, Andreas Schneeweiss, Hermann Brenner, Rainer Claus, Christoph Plass, Peter Bugert, Markus Hoth, Christof Sohn, Rita Schmutzler, Claus R. Bartram, Barbara Burwinkel

Date Published: 15th Apr 2015

Publication Type: Journal article

Human Diseases: hereditary breast ovarian cancer syndrome

Double heterozygosity for mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 in German breast cancer patients: implications on test strategies and clinical management
GC-HBOC - German Consortium for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer

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Double heterozygosity for disease-causing BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations is a very rare condition in most populations. Here we describe genetic and clinical data of eight female double heterozygotes (DH) … for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations found in a cohort of 8162 German breast/ovarian cancer families and compare it with the data of their single heterozygous relatives and of the index patients of the German Consortium for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer. Furthermore, we analyze the phenotypic features of these patients with respect to age at onset of first cancer, first breast/ovarian cancer and the number of disease manifestations and compare them to that of published Caucasian female DHs and their single heterozygous female relatives. German DHs were not significantly younger at diagnosis of first breast cancer than the single heterozygous index patients of the German Consortium. However, if the data of our study were pooled with that of the literature, DHs were substantially younger at onset of first cancer (mean age 40.4 years, 95 % CI = 36.6-44.1) than their single heterozygous female relatives (mean age 51.9 years, 95 % CI = 46.8-57.0). The two groups also differed concerning the onset of first breast cancer (mean age 40.6 years, 95 % CI = 36.6-44.5 vs. 52.6, 95 % CI = 47.5-57.6). In addition, DHs had a more severe disease than their female relatives carrying a single BRCA mutation (1.4 vs. 0.6 manifestations per person). In contrast to Ashkenazi Jewish females, Caucasian DH females might develop breast cancer at an earlier age and have a more severe disease than single heterozygous BRCA mutation carriers. Therefore, DHs may benefit from more intensive surveillance programs/follow-up care and prophylactic surgery.

Authors: Simone Heidemann, Christine Fischer, Christoph Engel, Barbara Fischer, Lana Harder, Brigitte Schlegelberger, Dieter Niederacher, Timm O. Goecke, Sandra C. Doelken, Nicola Dikow, Walter Jonat, Susanne Morlot, Rita C. Schmutzler, Norbert K. Arnold

Date Published: 1st Aug 2012

Publication Type: Journal article

Human Diseases: hereditary breast ovarian cancer syndrome

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