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High frequency of somatic frameshift BHD gene mutations in Birt-Hogg-Dube-associated renal tumors

  1. Author:
    Vocke, C. D.
    Yang, Y. F.
    Pavlovich, C. P.
    Schmidt, L. S.
    Nickerson, M. L.
    Torres-Cabala, C. A.
    Merino, M. J.
    Walther, M. M.
    Zbar, B.
    Linehan, W. M.

  2. Author Address

    NCI, Urol Oncol Branch, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA. NCI, Ctr Canc Res, Pathol Lab, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA. SAIC Frederick Inc, Basic Res Program, Frederick, MD USA. Natl Canc Inst, Immunobiol Lab, Frederick, MD USA Vocke, CD, NCI, Urol Oncol Branch, Bldg 10,CRC,Rm 1W-5888, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA
    1. Year: 2005
    2. Date: JUN 15
  2. Journal: Journal of the National Cancer Institute
    1. 97
    2. 12
    3. Pages: 931-935
  4. Type of Article: Article
  1. Abstract:

    The Birt-Rogg-Dube (BHD) syndrome is an inherited genodermatosis characterized by a predisposition to hamartomatous skin lesions, pulmonary cysts, and renal carcinoma. Seventy-seven renal tumors from 12 patients with germline BHD mutations were examined by DNA sequencing to identify somatic mutations in the second copy of BHD. Sequence alterations were detected in the majority of renal tumors (41 of 77, 53%), with loss of heterozygosity at the BHD focus in a minority of additional tumors (14 of 77, 17%). The somatic mutations were distributed across the entire gene, and the majority resulted in frameshifts that are predicted to truncate the BHD protein. These results support a role for BHD as a tumor suppressor gene that predisposes to the development of renal tumors when both copies are inactivated

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