Risk assessment of maternally inherited SDHD paraganglioma and phaeochromocytoma.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS(2017)
摘要
Background Germline mutations in the SDHD tumour suppressor gene (11q23.1) predispose to phaeochromocytomas and paragangliomas (PPGL) mainly on a paternal transmission. However, PPGL have been recently reported in three carriers of a maternally inherited SDHD mutation. Objective To assess the risk of PPGL occurrence on maternal transmission of SDHD mutation. Methods Pedigrees of 80 SDHD-related families have been reviewed. 35 asymptomatic subjects carrying a maternally transmitted SDHD mutation were identified. 20 of them accepted to benefit from a PPGL imaging screening. Results A unique histologically proven biochemically negative phaeochromocytoma has been diagnosed in a 35-year-old woman. Molecular investigations carried out on tumour tissue revealed that the loss of heterozygosity encompassed the paternally derived q arm and the maternally derived p arm of chromosome 11. Conclusions This study demonstrates that the risk of developing PPGL for a subject carrying a germline SDHD mutation on the maternal allele remains a rare scenario but does exist. Our data suggest an adjustment of current genetic counselling and clinical care recommendations for at-risk subjects. A targeted familial genetic test should be proposed from the age of 18years to every subject having a mother carrying a germline SDHD mutation and a first medical workup, including imaging, should be recommended to SDHD-positive mutation carriers.
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Adrenal disorders,Cancer: endocrine,Genetics,Genetic screening,counselling,Molecular genetics
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