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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
Volume 22, Issue 22, Pages 4486-4494Publisher
AMER SOC CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2004.02.033
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Purpose The aim of the study was the analysis of the involvement and phenotypic manifestations of MSH6 germline mutations in families suspected of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC). Patients and Methods Patients were preselected among 706 families by microsatellite instability, immunohistochemistry, and/or exclusion of MLH1 or MSH2 mutations and were subjected to MSH6 mutation analysis. Clinical and molecular data of MSH6 mutation families were compared with data from families with MLH1 and MSH2 mutations. Results We identified 27 families with 24 different pathogenic MSH6 germline mutations, representing 3.8% of the total of the families, and 14.7% of all families with DNA mismatch repair (MMR) gene mutations (n = 183). The median age of onset of colorectal cancer in putative mutation carriers was 10 years higher for MSH6 (54 years; 95% CI, 51 to 56) compared with MLH1 and MSH2 (44 years; 95% CI, 43 to 45; log-rank test, P = .0038). Relative to other malignant tumors, colorectal cancer was less frequent in MSH6 families compared with MLH1 and MSH2 families (Fisher's exact test, P < .001). In contrast, the frequency of non-HNPCC-associated tumors was increased (Fisher's exact test, P < .001). Conclusion Later age of disease onset and lower incidence of colorectal cancer may contribute to a lower proportion of identified MSH6 mutations in families suspected of HNPCC. However, in approximately half of these families, at least one patient developed colorectal or endometrial cancer in the fourth decade of life. Therefore, a surveillance program as stringent as that for families with MLH1 or MSH2 mutations is recommended. (C) 2004 by American Society of Clinical Oncology.
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