Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Identifying colorectal cancer caused by biallelic MUTYH pathogenic variants using tumor mutational signatures

  • Peter Georgeson,
  • Tabitha A. Harrison,
  • Bernard J. Pope,
  • Syed H. Zaidi,
  • Conghui Qu,
  • Robert S. Steinfelder,
  • Yi Lin,
  • Jihoon E. Joo,
  • Khalid Mahmood,
  • Mark Clendenning,
  • Romy Walker,
  • Efrat L. Amitay,
  • Sonja I. Berndt,
  • Hermann Brenner,
  • Peter T. Campbell,
  • Yin Cao,
  • Andrew T. Chan,
  • Jenny Chang-Claude,
  • Kimberly F. Doheny,
  • David A. Drew,
  • Jane C. Figueiredo,
  • Amy J. French,
  • Steven Gallinger,
  • Marios Giannakis,
  • Graham G. Giles,
  • Andrea Gsur,
  • Marc J. Gunter,
  • Michael Hoffmeister,
  • Li Hsu,
  • Wen-Yi Huang,
  • Paul Limburg,
  • JoAnn E. Manson,
  • Victor Moreno,
  • Rami Nassir,
  • Jonathan A. Nowak,
  • Mireia Obón-Santacana,
  • Shuji Ogino,
  • Amanda I. Phipps,
  • John D. Potter,
  • Robert E. Schoen,
  • Wei Sun,
  • Amanda E. Toland,
  • Quang M. Trinh,
  • Tomotaka Ugai,
  • Finlay A. Macrae,
  • Christophe Rosty,
  • Thomas J. Hudson,
  • Mark A. Jenkins,
  • Stephen N. Thibodeau,
  • Ingrid M. Winship,
  • Ulrike Peters,
  • Daniel D. Buchanan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30916-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Germline biallelic pathogenic MUTYH variants predispose patients to colorectal cancer (CRC); however, approaches to identify MUTYH variant carriers are lacking. Here, the authors evaluated mutational signatures that could distinguish MUTYH carriers in large CRC cohorts, and found MUTYH-associated somatic mutations.