Genetic variations of patients with familial or multiple melanoma in Southern Brazil
Background Patients with familial melanoma or multiple primary melanoma represent a high‐risk population to hereditary melanoma. Mutations in susceptibility genes, such as CDKN2A, CDK4 and MC1R, have been associated with the development of melanoma. Objectives The purpose of this study was to dete...
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Published in | Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. e179 - e185 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Oxford, UK
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
01.02.2013
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Summary: | Background Patients with familial melanoma or multiple primary melanoma represent a high‐risk population to hereditary melanoma. Mutations in susceptibility genes, such as CDKN2A, CDK4 and MC1R, have been associated with the development of melanoma.
Objectives The purpose of this study was to determine the genotypic background of patients with familial and/or multiple melanoma in southern Brazil.
Methods This study analysed 33 cases (5 patients with multiple primary melanoma and 28 patients from families with at least two well documented cases) and 29 controls. Genomic analysis of CDKN2A and CDK4 genes by PCR‐SSCP analysis and sequencing and direct sequencing of MC1R were performed in all individuals.
Results No functional mutations in CDKN2A or CDK4 were detected in the 62 individuals. Infrequent variants in polymorphic loci of CDKN2A gene were identified in 15 participants (24.2%) and 24/33 (72.8%) cases and 19/27 (70.4%) controls reported at least one infrequent variant in MC1R (P = 0.372). Furthermore, a non‐significant tendency towards an association between melanoma risk and MC1R variants G274A and C451T and a non‐significant linear tendency to the number of infrequent high‐risk variants in MC1R were observed.
Conclusions These results suggest that in southern Brazilian population, CDKN2A or CDK4 germinal alterations may have a weaker influence than previously thought and environmental risk factors may play a central role in melanoma susceptibility. However, considering the tendency observed for gene MC1R, low‐penetrance genes may be a relevant aetiological factor in southern Brazil with fair skin population and high sunlight exposure. |
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Bibliography: | istex:15346C4359F5B18EA5978829E871AE562BED4951 ArticleID:JDV4567 ark:/67375/WNG-5DBJB4TC-N Funding sources The work was part of the project GenoMEL founded by the European Commission under the 6th Framework Programme, Contract nº: LSHC‐CT‐2006‐018702. of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain; by the AGAUR 2009 SGR 1337 of the Catalan Government, Spain and by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the US National Institute of Health (NIH) (CA83115). Conflict of interest CIBER de Enfermedades Raras The research at the Melanoma Unit in Barcelona is partially funded by Grants 03/0019, 05/0302, 06/0265 and 09/1393 from Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias, Spain; by the ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 0926-9959 1468-3083 |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1468-3083.2012.04567.x |