Journal
GENES
Volume 13, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/genes13040591
Keywords
hereditary cancer predisposition; germline POT1 alteration; splenic marginal zone lymphoma; cancer genetics
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- National Cancer Institute [P30 CA043703]
- University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center Minority Faculty Development Award
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Germline disruptive variants in the POT1 gene predispose individuals to multiple types of cancer. We report a case of splenic marginal zone lymphoma in a 65-year-old male with a germline POT1 variant. This likely pathogenic variant represents one of the most deleterious POT1 variants linked to familial cancer.
Germline disruptive variants in Protection of Telomeres 1 (POT1) predispose to a wide variety of cancers, including melanoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), Hodgkin lymphoma, myeloproliferative neoplasms, and glioma. We report the first case of splenic marginal zone lymphoma (SMZL) arising in a patient with a germline POT1 variant: a 65-year-old male with an extensive history of cancer, including melanoma and papillary thyroid carcinoma, who presented with circulating atypical lymphocytosis. Bone marrow biopsy revealed 20% involvement by a CD5(-)CD10(-) B-cell lymphoma that was difficult to classify. During the clinical workup of his low-grade lymphoma, targeted next-generation sequencing (NGS) identified POT1 p.I49Mfs*7 (NM_015450:c. 147delT) at a variant allele frequency (VAF) of 51%. NGS of skin fibroblasts confirmed the POT1 variant was germline. This likely pathogenic POT1 loss-of-function variant has only been reported once before as a germline variant in a patient with glioma and likely represents one of the most deleterious germline POT1 variants ever linked to familial cancer. The spectrum of cancers associated with germline pathogenic POT1 variants (i.e., autosomal dominant POT1 tumor predisposition syndrome) should potentially be expanded to include SMZL, a disease often associated with the loss of chromosome 7q: the location of the POT1 genetic locus (7q31.33).
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