title: Germline variation in cancer-susceptibility genes in a healthy, ancestrally diverse cohort: implications for individual genome sequencing.
abstract: Technological advances coupled with decreasing costs are bringing whole genome and whole exome sequencing closer to routine clinical use. One of the hurdles to clinical implementation is the high number of variants of unknown significance. For cancer-susceptibility genes, the difficulty in interpreting the clinical relevance of the genomic variants is compounded by the fact that most of what is known about these variants comes from the study of highly selected populations, such as cancer patients or individuals with a family history of cancer. The genetic variation in known cancer-susceptibility genes in the general population has not been well characterized to date. To address this gap, we profiled the nonsynonymous genomic variation in 158 genes causally implicated in carcinogenesis using high-quality whole genome sequences from an ancestrally diverse cohort of 681 healthy individuals. We found that all individuals carry multiple variants that may impact cancer susceptibility, with an average of 68 variants per individual. Of the 2,688 allelic variants identified within the cohort, most are very rare, with 75% found in only 1 or 2 individuals in our population. Allele frequencies vary between ancestral groups, and there are 21 variants for which the minor allele in one population is the major allele in another. Detailed analysis of a selected subset of 5 clinically important cancer genes, BRCA1, BRCA2, KRAS, TP53, and PTEN, highlights differences between germline variants and reported somatic mutations. The dataset can serve a resource of genetic variation in cancer-susceptibility genes in 6 ancestry groups, an important foundation for the interpretation of cancer risk from personal genome sequences.
authors.affiliation: Inova Translational Medicine Institute, Inova Health System, Falls Church, Virginia, United States of America.
authors.forename: Dale L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Bodian
authors.affiliation: Inova Translational Medicine Institute, Inova Health System, Falls Church, Virginia, United States of America.
authors.forename: Justine N
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: McCutcheon
authors.affiliation: Inova Translational Medicine Institute, Inova Health System, Falls Church, Virginia, United States of America.
authors.forename: Prachi
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kothiyal
authors.affiliation: Inova Translational Medicine Institute, Inova Health System, Falls Church, Virginia, United States of America.
authors.forename: Kathi C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Huddleston
authors.affiliation: Inova Translational Medicine Institute, Inova Health System, Falls Church, Virginia, United States of America.
authors.forename: Ramaswamy K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Iyer
authors.affiliation: Inova Translational Medicine Institute, Inova Health System, Falls Church, Virginia, United States of America.
authors.forename: Joseph G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Vockley
authors.affiliation: Inova Translational Medicine Institute, Inova Health System, Falls Church, Virginia, United States of America.
authors.forename: John E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Niederhuber
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000483:Alleles; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D005787:Gene Frequency / Q000235:genetics; D005788:Gene Pool; D052138:Genes, Neoplasm; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D015894:Genome, Human / Q000235:genetics*; D018095:Germ-Line Mutation / Q000235:genetics*; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*; D016366:Open Reading Frames / Q000235:genetics; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D055815:Young Adult
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