A novel founder mutation in the RNASEL gene, 471delAAAG, is associated with prostate cancer in Ashkenazi Jews.
HPC1/RNASEL was recently identified as a candidate gene for hereditary prostate cancer. We identified a novel founder frameshift mutation in RNASEL, 471delAAAG, in Ashkenazi Jews. The mutation frequency in the Ashkenazi population, estimated on the basis of the frequency in 150 healthy young women, was 4% (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.9%-8.4%). Among Ashkenazi Jews, the mutation frequency was higher in patients with prostate cancer (PRCA) than in elderly male control individuals (6.9% vs. 2.4%; odds ratio = 3.0; 95% CI 0.6-15.3; P=.17). 471delAAAG was not detected in the 134 non-Ashkenazi patients with PRCA and control individuals tested. The median age at PRCA diagnosis did not differ significantly between the Ashkenazi carriers and noncarriers included in our study. However, carriers received diagnoses at a significantly earlier age, compared with patients with PRCA who were registered in the Israeli National Cancer Registry (65 vs. 74.4 years, respectively; P<.001). When we examined two brothers with PRCA, we found a heterozygous 471delAAAG mutation in one and a homozygous mutation in the other. Loss of heterozygosity was demonstrated in the tumor of the heterozygous sib. Taken together, these data suggest that the 471delAAAG null mutation is associated with PRCA in Ashkenazi men. However, additional studies are required to determine whether this mutation confers increased risk for PRCA in this population.
Rennert
Hanna
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Genetic Institute, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel.
Bercovich
Dani
D
Hubert
Ayala
A
Abeliovich
Dvora
D
Rozovsky
Uri
U
Bar-Shira
Anat
A
Soloviov
Sonya
S
Schreiber
Letizia
L
Matzkin
Haim
H
Rennert
Gad
G
Kadouri
Luna
L
Peretz
Tamar
T
Yaron
Yuval
Y
Orr-Urtreger
Avi
A
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D000954:Antigens, Surface; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D050827:Syntaxin 1