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Methylation is less abundant in BRCA1-associated compared with sporadic breast cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Promoter methylation is a common epigenetic mechanism to silence tumor suppressor genes during breast cancer development. We investigated whether BRCA1-associated breast tumors show cancer-predictive methylation patterns similar to those found in sporadic tumors.

Patients and methods

Quantitative multiplex methylation-specific PCR of 11 genes involved in breast carcinogenesis (RARB, RASSF1, TWIST1, CCND2, ESR1, SCGB3A1, BRCA1, BRCA2, CDKN2A, APC, CDH1) was carried out on 32 BRCA1-associated and 46 sporadic breast carcinomas and on normal breast tissue from seven BRCA1 mutation carriers and 13 non-carriers.

Results

The extent of cumulative methylation increased with age (P < 0.001). The median cumulative methylation index (CMI) of all studied genes was significantly higher in tumors (89) than in normal tissue (13, P < 0.001). The median CMI was significantly lower in BRCA1-associated (59) than in sporadic breast tumors (122, P = 0.001), in estrogen receptor (ER)-negative tumors (73) than in ER-positive tumors (122, P = 0.005) and in lymph node-negative (77) compared with lymph node-positive tumors (137, P = 0.007). In subgroup analysis, the effect of a BRCA1 germline mutation on methylation proved to be independent of ER status, lymph node status and age.

Conclusions

These data indicate that BRCA1-associated breast cancers show less promoter methylation compared with sporadic breast carcinomas indicating a difference in disease etiology.

SUBMITTER: Suijkerbuijk KP

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2733079 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Methylation is less abundant in BRCA1-associated compared with sporadic breast cancer.

Suijkerbuijk K P M KP Fackler M J MJ Sukumar S S van Gils C H CH van Laar T T van der Wall E E Vooijs M M van Diest P J PJ

Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology 20080722 11

<h4>Background</h4>Promoter methylation is a common epigenetic mechanism to silence tumor suppressor genes during breast cancer development. We investigated whether BRCA1-associated breast tumors show cancer-predictive methylation patterns similar to those found in sporadic tumors.<h4>Patients and methods</h4>Quantitative multiplex methylation-specific PCR of 11 genes involved in breast carcinogenesis (RARB, RASSF1, TWIST1, CCND2, ESR1, SCGB3A1, BRCA1, BRCA2, CDKN2A, APC, CDH1) was carried out o ...[more]

PMID: 18647968

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Methylation is less abundant in BRCA1-associated compared with sporadic breast cancer.

Background

Patients and methods

Results

Conclusions

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Methylation is less abundant in BRCA1-associated compared with sporadic breast cancer.

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