Familial Pancreatic Cancer (FPC) is an autosomal dominant condition with greater then 80% of genetic causes unknown. We hypothesize that an integrative approach employing germline exome sequencing and somatic microarray analysis of FFPE DNA will identify novel tumour suppressor genes (TSGs). 55 FPC and 21 sporadic PDAC tumours were analyzed on the Affymetrix Oncoscan FFPE Express 2.0 SNP microarray and compared to data from 33 germline FPC cases analyzed on the Illumina GAIIx Analyzer. We have demonstrated that FPC is genetically heterogeneous with recurrent loss at CDKN2A/p16, TP53 and SMAD4. Analysis of 2 sisters has shown a shared loss region involving DCLK3 and SERPINF1. By an integrative approach, we have identified ATPAF1-AS1 and MAP3K6 as potential TSGs. Germline variants of these genes have been confirmed by Sanger sequencing and somatic fluorescence in-situ hybridization. Future functional studies will better characterize the importance of these regions and novel putative TSGs in FPC.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/42995 |
| Date | 29 November 2013 |
| Creators | Kanji, Zaheer Shamshudin |
| Contributors | Gallinger, Steven |
| Source Sets | University of Toronto |
| Language | en_ca |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, Dataset |
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