Anne-Laure Renault, Noura Mebirouk, Laetitia Fuhrmann, Guillaume Bataillon, Eve Cavaciuti, Dorothée Le Gal, Elodie Girard, Tatiana Popova, Philippe La Rosa, Juana Beauvallet, Séverine Eon-Marchais, Marie-Gabrielle Dondon, Catherine Dubois d'Enghien, Anthony Laugé, Walid Chemlali, Virginie Raynal, Martine Labbé, Ivan Bièche, Sylvain Baulande, Jacques-Olivier Bay, Pascaline Berthet, Olivier Caron, Bruno Buecher, Laurence Faivre, Marc Fresnay, Marion Gauthier-Villars, Paul Gesta, Nicolas Janin, Sophie Lejeune, Christine Maugard, Sébastien Moutton, Laurence Venat-Bouvet, Hélène Zattara, Jean-Pierre Fricker, Laurence Gladieff, Isabelle Coupier, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Janet Hall, Anne Vincent-Salomon, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Nadine Andrieu, Fabienne Lesueur
BACKGROUND: The ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) gene is a moderate-risk breast cancer susceptibility gene; germline loss-of-function variants are found in up to 3% of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) families who undergo genetic testing. So far, no clear histopathological and molecular features of breast tumours occurring in ATM deleterious variant carriers have been described, but identification of an ATM-associated tumour signature may help in patient management. METHODS: To characterise hallmarks of ATM-associated tumours, we performed systematic pathology review of tumours from 21 participants from ataxia-telangiectasia families and 18 participants from HBOC families, as well as copy number profiling on a subset of 23 tumours...
April 17, 2018: Breast Cancer Research: BCR