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Sequence analysis of the mismatch repair gene hMSH6 in the germline of patients with familial and sporadic colorectal cancer

✍ Scribed by Jens Plaschke; Christian Kruppa; René Tischler; Tina Bocker; Steffen Pistorius; Henning Dralle; Josef Rüschoff; Hans D. Saeger; Richard Fishel; Hans K. Schackert

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2000
Tongue
French
Weight
634 KB
Volume
85
Category
Article
ISSN
0020-7136

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✦ Synopsis

To evaluate the involvement of hMSH6 in colorectal cancer, the complete coding sequence and flanking intron regions of the gene were analyzed by DNA sequencing in 10 patients fulfilling Bethesda Guidelines for colorectal tumors and 10 patients with sporadic colorectal carcinoma. In addition, 10 mono- and 10 dinucleotide repeat markers were analyzed for microsatellite instability. A protein-truncating T insertion at codon 218 was identified in the index person of a hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC)-like kindred and was accompanied by a somatic T deletion in the tumor. The tumor of this patient was positive for mono- but negative for dinucleotide repeat instability and lacked allelic losses at loci frequently affected in colorectal carcinomas. A novel amino acid change, F340S, was found in a patient with sporadic colon and breast cancer and leukemia but was not detected in 246 chromosomes from healthy anonymous blood donors. In addition, we describe 2 silent and 15 intronic sequence variants not previously reported. Although the frequency is low, we present further evidence for hMSH6 germline mutations that predispose patients to HNPCC-like phenotypes and suggest that mono- and dinucleotide repeat instability testing may be useful for distinguishing between individuals harboring an hMSH2 or hMLH1 mutation and a mutation of the hMSH6 gene.

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