Sami Belhadj, Aliya Khurram, Chaitanya Bandlamudi, Guillermo Palou-Márquez, Vignesh Ravichandran, Zoe Steinsnyder, Temima Wildman, Amanda Catchings, Yelena Kemel, Semanti Mukherjee, Benjamin Fesko, Kanika Arora, Miika Mehine, Sita Dandiker, Aalin Izhar, John Petrini, Susan Domchek, Katherine L Nathanson, Jamie Brower, Fergus Couch, Zsofia Stadler, Mark Robson, Michael Walsh, Joseph Vijai, Michael Berger, Fran Supek, Rachid Karam, Sabine Topka, Kenneth Offit
PURPOSE: To explore the role of NBN as a pan-cancer susceptibility gene. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: Matched germline and somatic DNA samples from 34,046 patients were sequenced using Memorial Sloan Kettering-Integrated Mutation Profiling of Actionable Cancer Targets and presumed pathogenic germline variants (PGV) identified. Allele-specific and gene-centered analysis of enrichment was conducted and a validation cohort of 26,407 pan-cancer patients was analyzed. Functional studies utilized cellular models with analysis of protein expression, MRN complex formation/localization, and viability assessment following treatment with γ-irradiation...
January 17, 2023: Clinical Cancer Research