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NATURE GENETICS
卷 38, 期 8, 页码 926-930出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ng1836
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- NCI NIH HHS [U01 CA141455, R01 CA111834-03, R01 CA111834, U01CA84306, R01 CA111834-02, R01 CA111834-04, U01 CA084306, R01 CA111834-01A2, U01CA84244, U01 CA084244] Funding Source: Medline
Pulmonary adenoma susceptibility 1 (Pas1) is the major mouse lung cancer susceptibility locus on chromosome 6 (ref. 1). Kras2 is a common target of somatic mutation in chemically induced mouse lung tumors(2,3) and is a candidate Pas1 gene(4). M. spretus mice (SPRET/Ei) carry a Pas1 resistance haplotype for chemically induced lung tumors(5). We demonstrate that the SPRET/Ei Pas1 allele is switched from resistance to susceptibility by fixation of the parental origin of the mutant Kras2 allele. This switch correlates with low expression of endogenous Kras2 in SPRET/Ei. We propose that the Pas1 modifier effect is due to Kras2, and that a sensitive balance between the expression levels of wild-type and mutant alleles determines lung tumor susceptibility. These data demonstrate that cancer predisposition should also be considered in the context of somatic events and could have major implications for the design of human association studies to identify cancer susceptibility genes.
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