title: Clinical evaluation of a multiple-gene sequencing panel for hereditary cancer risk assessment.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Multiple-gene sequencing is entering practice, but its clinical value is unknown. We evaluated the performance of a customized germline-DNA sequencing panel for cancer-risk assessment in a representative clinical sample.
  
  
  METHODS
  Patients referred for clinical BRCA1/2 testing from 2002 to 2012 were invited to donate a research blood sample. Samples were frozen at -80° C, and DNA was extracted from them after 1 to 10 years. The entire coding region, exon-intron boundaries, and all known pathogenic variants in other regions were sequenced for 42 genes that had cancer risk associations. Potentially actionable results were disclosed to participants.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In total, 198 women participated in the study: 174 had breast cancer and 57 carried germline BRCA1/2 mutations. BRCA1/2 analysis was fully concordant with prior testing. Sixteen pathogenic variants were identified in ATM, BLM, CDH1, CDKN2A, MUTYH, MLH1, NBN, PRSS1, and SLX4 among 141 women without BRCA1/2 mutations. Fourteen participants carried 15 pathogenic variants, warranting a possible change in care; they were invited for targeted screening recommendations, enabling early detection and removal of a tubular adenoma by colonoscopy. Participants carried an average of 2.1 variants of uncertain significance among 42 genes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Among women testing negative for BRCA1/2 mutations, multiple-gene sequencing identified 16 potentially pathogenic mutations in other genes (11.4%; 95% CI, 7.0% to 17.7%), of which 15 (10.6%; 95% CI, 6.5% to 16.9%) prompted consideration of a change in care, enabling early detection of a precancerous colon polyp. Additional studies are required to quantify the penetrance of identified mutations and determine clinical utility. However, these results suggest that multiple-gene sequencing may benefit appropriately selected patients.
authors.affiliation: Allison W. Kurian, Meredith A. Mills, Kerry E. Kingham, Lisa McPherson, Alice S. Whittemore, Valerie McGuire, Uri Ladabaum, James M. Ford, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford; Emily E. Hare, Yuya Kobayashi, Stephen E. Lincoln, Michele Cargill, InVitae, San Francisco, CA.
authors.forename: Allison W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Kurian
authors.affiliation: Allison W. Kurian, Meredith A. Mills, Kerry E. Kingham, Lisa McPherson, Alice S. Whittemore, Valerie McGuire, Uri Ladabaum, James M. Ford, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford; Emily E. Hare, Yuya Kobayashi, Stephen E. Lincoln, Michele Cargill, InVitae, San Francisco, CA.
authors.forename: Emily E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Hare
authors.affiliation: Allison W. Kurian, Meredith A. Mills, Kerry E. Kingham, Lisa McPherson, Alice S. Whittemore, Valerie McGuire, Uri Ladabaum, James M. Ford, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford; Emily E. Hare, Yuya Kobayashi, Stephen E. Lincoln, Michele Cargill, InVitae, San Francisco, CA.
authors.forename: Meredith A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Mills
authors.affiliation: Allison W. Kurian, Meredith A. Mills, Kerry E. Kingham, Lisa McPherson, Alice S. Whittemore, Valerie McGuire, Uri Ladabaum, James M. Ford, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford; Emily E. Hare, Yuya Kobayashi, Stephen E. Lincoln, Michele Cargill, InVitae, San Francisco, CA.
authors.forename: Kerry E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Kingham
authors.affiliation: Allison W. Kurian, Meredith A. Mills, Kerry E. Kingham, Lisa McPherson, Alice S. Whittemore, Valerie McGuire, Uri Ladabaum, James M. Ford, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford; Emily E. Hare, Yuya Kobayashi, Stephen E. Lincoln, Michele Cargill, InVitae, San Francisco, CA.
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: McPherson
authors.affiliation: Allison W. Kurian, Meredith A. Mills, Kerry E. Kingham, Lisa McPherson, Alice S. Whittemore, Valerie McGuire, Uri Ladabaum, James M. Ford, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford; Emily E. Hare, Yuya Kobayashi, Stephen E. Lincoln, Michele Cargill, InVitae, San Francisco, CA.
authors.forename: Alice S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Whittemore
authors.affiliation: Allison W. Kurian, Meredith A. Mills, Kerry E. Kingham, Lisa McPherson, Alice S. Whittemore, Valerie McGuire, Uri Ladabaum, James M. Ford, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford; Emily E. Hare, Yuya Kobayashi, Stephen E. Lincoln, Michele Cargill, InVitae, San Francisco, CA.
authors.forename: Valerie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: McGuire
authors.affiliation: Allison W. Kurian, Meredith A. Mills, Kerry E. Kingham, Lisa McPherson, Alice S. Whittemore, Valerie McGuire, Uri Ladabaum, James M. Ford, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford; Emily E. Hare, Yuya Kobayashi, Stephen E. Lincoln, Michele Cargill, InVitae, San Francisco, CA.
authors.forename: Uri
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Ladabaum
authors.affiliation: Allison W. Kurian, Meredith A. Mills, Kerry E. Kingham, Lisa McPherson, Alice S. Whittemore, Valerie McGuire, Uri Ladabaum, James M. Ford, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford; Emily E. Hare, Yuya Kobayashi, Stephen E. Lincoln, Michele Cargill, InVitae, San Francisco, CA.
authors.forename: Yuya
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.affiliation: Allison W. Kurian, Meredith A. Mills, Kerry E. Kingham, Lisa McPherson, Alice S. Whittemore, Valerie McGuire, Uri Ladabaum, James M. Ford, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford; Emily E. Hare, Yuya Kobayashi, Stephen E. Lincoln, Michele Cargill, InVitae, San Francisco, CA.
authors.forename: Stephen E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Lincoln
authors.affiliation: Allison W. Kurian, Meredith A. Mills, Kerry E. Kingham, Lisa McPherson, Alice S. Whittemore, Valerie McGuire, Uri Ladabaum, James M. Ford, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford; Emily E. Hare, Yuya Kobayashi, Stephen E. Lincoln, Michele Cargill, InVitae, San Francisco, CA.
authors.forename: Michele
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cargill
authors.affiliation: Allison W. Kurian, Meredith A. Mills, Kerry E. Kingham, Lisa McPherson, Alice S. Whittemore, Valerie McGuire, Uri Ladabaum, James M. Ford, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford; Emily E. Hare, Yuya Kobayashi, Stephen E. Lincoln, Michele Cargill, InVitae, San Francisco, CA. jmf@stanford.edu.
authors.forename: James M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Ford
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D019313:BRCA1 Protein / Q000235:genetics; D024682:BRCA2 Protein / Q000235:genetics; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*; D055088:Early Detection of Cancer; D005260:Female; D014644:Genetic Variation; D018095:Germ-Line Mutation; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D008875:Middle Aged; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D018570:Risk Assessment; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D019313:BRCA1 Protein; C492913:BRCA1 protein, human; D024682:BRCA2 Protein; C551750:BRCA2 protein, human
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