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ArticleCancer medicine2024

BRCA1, BRCA2, and TP53 germline and somatic variants and clinicopathological characteristics of Brazilian patients with epithelial ovarian cancer.

Caroline Stahnke Richau, Nicole de Miranda Scherer, Bruna Palma Matta, Elvismary Molina de Armas, Fábio Carvalho de Barros Moreira, Anke Bergmann, Claudia Bessa Pereira Chaves, Mariana Boroni, Anna Claudia Evangelista Dos Santos, Miguel Angelo Martins Moreira

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Caroline Stahnke RichauTumoral Genetics and Virology Program, Instituto Nacional de Câncer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Nicole de Miranda SchererBioinformatics and Computational Biology Laboratory, Instituto Nacional de Câncer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-5914-4776
Bruna Palma MattaTumoral Genetics and Virology Program, Instituto Nacional de Câncer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Elvismary Molina de ArmasBioinformatics and Computational Biology Laboratory, Instituto Nacional de Câncer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Fábio Carvalho de Barros MoreiraDivision of Pathology, Instituto Nacional de Câncer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Anke BergmannClinical Epidemiology, Instituto Nacional de Câncer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Claudia Bessa Pereira ChavesGynecologic Oncology Department, Cancer Hospital II, Instituto Nacional de Câncer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Mariana BoroniBioinformatics and Computational Biology Laboratory, Instituto Nacional de Câncer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Anna Claudia Evangelista Dos SantosTumoral Genetics and Virology Program, Instituto Nacional de Câncer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Miguel Angelo Martins MoreiraTumoral Genetics and Virology Program, Instituto Nacional de Câncer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-1437-7522
Instituto Nacional de Câncer - INCA · BRHospital do Câncer III · BR

Funding

Brazilian National Cancer InstituteConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico 304339/2018-0Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 200.928/2021Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro E-26/211.309/2021Ministry of Health, BrazilSwiss Bridge Foundation
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Abstract

backgroundApproximately 3/4 of ovarian cancers are diagnosed in advanced stages, with the high-grade epithelial ovarian carcinoma (EOC) accounting for 90% of the cases. EOC present high genomic instability and somatic loss-of-function variants in genes associated with homologous recombination mutational repair pathway (HR), such as BRCA1 and BRCA2, and in TP53. The identification of germline variants in HR genes in EOC is relevant for treatment of platinum resistant tumors and relapsed tumors with therapies based in synthetic lethality such as PARP inhibitors. Patients with somatic variants in HR genes may also benefit from these therapies. In this work was analyzed the frequency of somatic variants in BRCA1, BRCA2, and TP53 in an EOC cohort of Brazilian patients, estimating the proportion of variants in tumoral tissue and their association with progression-free survival and overall survival.

methodsThe study was conducted with paired blood/tumor samples from 56 patients. Germline and tumoral sequences of BRCA1, BRCA2, and TP53 were obtained by massive parallel sequencing. The HaplotypeCaller method was used for calling germline variants, and somatic variants were called with Mutect2.

resultsA total of 26 germline variants were found, and seven patients presented germline pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants in BRCA1 or BRCA2. The analysis of tumoral tissue identified 52 somatic variants in 41 patients, being 43 somatic variants affecting or likely affecting protein functionality. Survival analyses showed that tumor staging was associated with overall survival (OS), while the presence of somatic mutation in TP53 was not associated with OS or progression-free survival.

conclusionFrequency of pathogenic or likely pathogenic germline variants in BRCA1 and BRCA2 (12.5%) was lower in comparison with other studies. TP53 was the most altered gene in tumors, with 62.5% presenting likely non-functional or non-functional somatic variants, while eight 14.2% presented likely non-functional or non-functional somatic variants in BRCA1 or BRCA2.

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Ovarian NeoplasmsBrazilBRCA1 ProteinBRCA2 ProteinCarcinoma, Ovarian EpithelialDNA RepairFemaleGerm CellsHumansTumor Suppressor Protein p53BRCA1 ProteinBRCA1 protein, humanBRCA2 ProteinBRCA2 protein, humanTP53 protein, humanTumor Suppressor Protein p53BRCA1BRCA2homologous recombination repair pathwayovarian cancersomatic mutationTP53

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PMID38308422
PMCPMC10905552
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