A1 Journal article (refereed)
Cancer risks by gene, age, and gender in 6350 carriers of pathogenic mismatch repair variants : findings from the Prospective Lynch Syndrome Database (2020)
Dominguez-Valentin, M., Sampson, J. R., Seppälä, T. T., ten Broeke, S. W., Plazzer, J.-P., Nakken, S., Engel, C., Aretz, S., Jenkins, M. A., Sunde, L., Bernstein, I., Capella, G., Balaguer, F., Thomas, H., Evans, D. G., Burn, J., Greenblatt, M., Hovig, E., de Vos tot Nederveen Cappel, W. H., . . . Møller, P. (2020). Cancer risks by gene, age, and gender in 6350 carriers of pathogenic mismatch repair variants : findings from the Prospective Lynch Syndrome Database. Genetics in Medicine, 22(1), 15-25. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41436-019-0596-9
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All authors or editors: Dominguez-Valentin, Mev; Sampson, Julian R.; Seppälä, Toni T.; ten Broeke, Sanne W.; Plazzer, John-Paul; Nakken, Sigve; Engel, Christoph; Aretz, Stefan; Jenkins, Mark A.; Sunde, Lone; et al.
Journal or series: Genetics in Medicine
ISSN: 1098-3600
eISSN: 1530-0366
Publication year: 2020
Volume: 22
Issue number: 1
Pages range: 15-25
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
Publication country: United Kingdom
Publication language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41436-019-0596-9
Publication open access: Openly available
Publication channel open access: Partially open access channel
Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/67156
Additional information: Note: A Correction to this article was published on 20 July 2020; http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41436-020-0892-4
Abstract
Pathogenic variants affecting MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, and PMS2 cause Lynch syndrome and result in different but imprecisely known cancer risks. This study aimed to provide age and organ-specific cancer risks according to gene and gender and to determine survival after cancer.
METHODS:
We conducted an international, multicenter prospective observational study using independent test and validation cohorts of carriers of class 4 or class 5 variants. After validation the cohorts were merged providing 6350 participants and 51,646 follow-up years.
RESULTS:
There were 1808 prospectively observed cancers. Pathogenic MLH1 and MSH2 variants caused high penetrance dominant cancer syndromes sharing similar colorectal, endometrial, and ovarian cancer risks, but older MSH2 carriers had higher risk of cancers of the upper urinary tract, upper gastrointestinal tract, brain, and particularly prostate. Pathogenic MSH6 variants caused a sex-limited trait with high endometrial cancer risk but only modestly increased colorectal cancer risk in both genders. We did not demonstrate a significantly increased cancer risk in carriers of pathogenic PMS2 variants. Ten-year crude survival was over 80% following colon, endometrial, or ovarian cancer.
CONCLUSION:
Management guidelines for Lynch syndrome may require revision in light of these different gene and gender-specific risks and the good prognosis for the most commonly associated cancers.
Keywords: bowel cancer; Lynch syndrome; oncogenes; genetic factors; gender; age
Free keywords: Lynch syndrome; MLH1; MSH2; MSH6; PMS2
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Reporting Year: 2020
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