A pathogenic mosaic TP53 mutation in two germ layers detected by next generation sequencing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Li-Fraumeni syndrome is caused by germline TP53 mutations and is clinically characterized by a predisposition to a range of cancers, most commonly sarcoma, brain tumours and leukemia. Pathogenic mosaic TP53 mutations have only rarely been described.

Methods and findings

We describe a 2 years old child presenting with three separate cancers over a 6 month period; two soft tissue mesenchymal tumors and an aggressive metastatic neuroblastoma. As conventional testing of blood DNA by Sanger sequencing for mutations in TP53, ALK, and SDH was negative, whole exome sequencing of the blood DNA of the patient and both parents was performed to screen more widely for cancer predisposing mutations. In the patient's but not the parents' DNA we found a c.743 G>A, p.Arg248Gln (CC

SUBMITTER: Behjati S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4014518 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature