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ArticleOncology letters2025

Genetic evaluation of patients with multiple primary cancers.

Maria Valeria Freire, Romain Thissen, Marie Martin, Corinne Fasquelle, Laura Helou, Keith Durkin, Maria Artesi, Aimé Lumaka, Natacha Leroi, Karin Segers and 6 more

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Article in Oncology letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Maria Valeria FreireDepartment of Human Genetics, GIGA Research Center-University of Liège and CHU Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium.
Romain ThissenDepartment of Human Genetics, GIGA Research Center-University of Liège and CHU Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium.
Marie MartinDepartment of Human Genetics, CHU Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium.
Corinne FasquelleDepartment of Human Genetics, CHU Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium.
Laura HelouDepartment of Human Genetics, GIGA Research Center-University of Liège and CHU Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium.
Keith DurkinDepartment of Human Genetics, GIGA Research Center-University of Liège and CHU Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium.
Maria ArtesiDepartment of Human Genetics, GIGA Research Center-University of Liège and CHU Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium.
Aimé LumakaDepartment of Human Genetics, GIGA Research Center-University of Liège and CHU Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium.
Natacha LeroiDepartment of Human Genetics, CHU Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium.
Karin SegersDepartment of Human Genetics, CHU Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium.
Michelle DebergDepartment of Human Genetics, CHU Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium.
Jean-Stéphane GatotDepartment of Human Genetics, CHU Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium.
Lionel HabranDepartment of Pathology, CHU Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium.
Leonor PalmeiraDepartment of Human Genetics, CHU Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium.
Claire JosseDepartment of Medical Oncology, GIGA Research Center-University of Liège and CHU Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium.
Vincent BoursDepartment of Human Genetics, GIGA Research Center-University of Liège and CHU Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regarding inherited cancer predisposition, single gene carriers of pathogenic variants (PVs) have been extensively reported on in the literature, whereas the oligogenic coinheritance of heterozygous PVs in cancer-related genes is a poorly studied event. Currently, due to the increased number of cancer survivors, the probability of patients presenting with multiple primary cancers (MPCs) is higher. The present study included patients with MPCs aged ≤45 years without known PVs in common cancer predisposition genes. This study used whole exome sequencing (WES) of germline and tumoral DNA, chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) of germline DNA (patients 1-7, 9 and 10), and a karyotype test of patient 8 to detect variants associated with the disease. The 10 patients included in the study presented a mean of 3 cancers per patient. CMA showed two microduplications and one microdeletion, while WES of the germline DNA identified 1-3 single nucleotide variants of potential interest to the disease in each patient and two additional copy number variants. Most of the identified variants were classified as variants of uncertain significance. The mapping of the germline variants into their pathways showed a possible additive effect of these as the cause of the cancer. A total of 12 somatic samples from 5 patients were available for sequencing. All of the germline variants were also present in the somatic samples, while no second hits were identified in the same genes. The sequencing of patients with early cancers, family history and multiple tumors is already a standard of care. However, growing evidence has suggested that the assessment of patients should not stop at the identification of one PV in a cancer predisposition gene.

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cancer predisposition genesearly cancersmultiple primary cancerssingle nucleotide variantswhole exome sequencing

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PMID39492936
PMCPMC11526284

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