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Bayesian approach to determining penetrance of pathogenic SDH variants
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ORCID: 0000-0003-4748-9571, Crook, A, Gill, AJ, Hicks, RJ, Kim, Edward, Luxford, C, Marfan, H, Richardson, L, Robinson, B, Schlosberg, A, Susman, R, Tacon, L, Trainer, A, Tucker, K, Maher, ER, Field, M and Clifton-Bligh, RJ 2018
, 'Bayesian approach to determining penetrance of pathogenic SDH variants'
, Cancer Genetics
, pp. 1-6
, doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/jmedgenet-2018-105427.
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Abstract
Background: Until recently, determining penetrance required large observational cohort studies. Data from the Exome Aggregate Consortium (ExAC) allows a Bayesian approach to calculate penetrance, in that population frequencies of pathogenic germline variants should be inversely proportional to their penetrance for disease. We tested this hypothesis using data from two cohorts for succinate dehydrogenase subunits A, B and C (SDHA–C) genetic variants associated with hereditary pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma (PC/PGL).Methods: Two cohorts were 575 unrelated Australian subjects and 1240 unrelated UK subjects, respectively, with PC/PGL in whom genetic testing had been performed. Penetrance of pathogenic SDHA–C variants was calculated by comparing allelic frequencies in cases versus controls from ExAC (removing those variants contributed by The Cancer Genome Atlas).Results: Pathogenic SDHA–C variants were identified in 106 subjects (18.4%) in cohort 1 and 317 subjects (25.6%) in cohort 2. Of 94 different pathogenic variants from both cohorts (seven in SDHA, 75 in SDHB and 12 in SDHC), 13 are reported in ExAC (two in SDHA, nine in SDHB and two in SDHC) accounting for 21% of subjects with SDHA–C variants. Combining data from both cohorts, estimated lifetime disease penetrance was 22.0% (95% CI 15.2% to 30.9%) for SDHB variants, 8.3% (95% CI 3.5% to 18.5%) for SDHC variants and 1.7% (95% CI 0.8% to 3.8%) for SDHA variants.Conclusion: Pathogenic variants in SDHB are more penetrant than those in SDHC and SDHA. Our findings have important implications for counselling and surveillance of subjects carrying these pathogenic variants.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Authors/Creators: | Benn, DE and Zhu, Y and Andrews, KA and Wilding, M and Duncan, EL and Dwight, T and Tothill, RW and Burgess, JR and Crook, A and Gill, AJ and Hicks, RJ and Kim, Edward and Luxford, C and Marfan, H and Richardson, L and Robinson, B and Schlosberg, A and Susman, R and Tacon, L and Trainer, A and Tucker, K and Maher, ER and Field, M and Clifton-Bligh, RJ |
| Keywords: | paraganglioma; pathogenic variant; penetrance; pheochromocytoma; succinate dehydrogenase |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Cancer Genetics |
| Publisher: | Elsevier Inc. |
| ISSN: | 2210-7762 |
| DOI / ID Number: | https://doi.org/10.1136/jmedgenet-2018-105427 |
| Copyright Information: | © 2018 The Authors. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
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