PLoS ONE (Jan 2017)

New advances in DPYD genotype and risk of severe toxicity under capecitabine.

  • Marie-Christine Etienne-Grimaldi,
  • Jean-Christophe Boyer,
  • Christophe Beroud,
  • Litaty Mbatchi,
  • André van Kuilenburg,
  • Christine Bobin-Dubigeon,
  • Fabienne Thomas,
  • Etienne Chatelut,
  • Jean-Louis Merlin,
  • Frédéric Pinguet,
  • Christophe Ferrand,
  • Judith Meijer,
  • Alexandre Evrard,
  • Laurence Llorca,
  • Gilles Romieu,
  • Philippe Follana,
  • Thomas Bachelot,
  • Loic Chaigneau,
  • Xavier Pivot,
  • Véronique Dieras,
  • Rémy Largillier,
  • Mireille Mousseau,
  • Anthony Goncalves,
  • Henri Roché,
  • Jacques Bonneterre,
  • Véronique Servent,
  • Nadine Dohollou,
  • Yann Château,
  • Emmanuel Chamorey,
  • Jean-Pierre Desvignes,
  • David Salgado,
  • Jean-Marc Ferrero,
  • Gérard Milano

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175998
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 5
p. e0175998

Abstract

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Deficiency in dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) enzyme is the main cause of severe and lethal fluoropyrimidine-related toxicity. Various approaches have been developed for DPD-deficiency screening, including DPYD genotyping and phenotyping. The goal of this prospective observational study was to perform exhaustive exome DPYD sequencing and to examine relationships between DPYD variants and toxicity in advanced breast cancer patients receiving capecitabine.Two-hundred forty-three patients were analysed (88.5% capecitabine monotherapy). Grade 3 and grade 4 capecitabine-related digestive and/or neurologic and/or hemato-toxicities were observed in 10.3% and 2.1% of patients, respectively. DPYD exome, along with flanking intronic regions 3'UTR and 5'UTR, were sequenced on MiSeq Illumina. DPD phenotype was assessed by pre-treatment plasma uracil (U) and dihydrouracil (UH2) measurement.Among the 48 SNPs identified, 19 were located in coding regions, including 3 novel variations, each observed in a single patient (among which, F100L and A26T, both pathogenic in silico). Combined analysis of deleterious variants *2A, I560S (*13) and D949V showed significant association with grade 3-4 toxicity (sensitivity 16.7%, positive predictive value (PPV) 71.4%, relative risk (RR) 6.7, p16 ng/ml) did not substantially increase the sensitivity, while impairing PPV and RR.Exploring an extended set of deleterious DPYD variants improves the performance of DPYD genotyping for predicting both grade 3-4 and grade 4 toxicities (digestive and/or neurologic and/or hematotoxicities) related to capecitabine, as compared to conventional genotyping restricted to consensual variants *2A, *13 and D949V.