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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 5.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA. 2017 Sep 5;318(9):825–835. doi: 10.1001/jama.2017.11137

Table 2.

Distribution of 220 Pathogenic or Likely Pathogenic Variants in 205 Patients With Advanced Cancer Consenting to Tumor-Normal Genomic Analysis

Gene Mutated in Tumor Type Patients With Advanced Cancer With Pathogenic Variants Total Pathogenic Variants per Gene, No.
Total per Gene, No. By Tumor Type (No. of Pathogenic Variants Detected by Gene and Tumor Type)
High Penetrance
BAP1 3 Mesothelioma (1), renal cell (2) 3
BRCA1 14 Bladder (1), breast (2), esophagogastric (1), ovarian (2), pancreatic (6), prostate (2) 14
BRCA2 45 Ampullary (1), biliary (3), breast (1), esophagogastric (1), melanoma (1), ovarian (3), pancreatic (11), prostate (24) 45
CDH1 2 Esophagogastric (2) 2
CDKN2A 3 Pancreatic (3) 3
FH 3 Renal cell (3) 3
FLCN 1 Prostate (1) 1
MEN1 1 Non–small cell lung (1) 1
MLH1 1 Bladder (1) 1
MSH2 7 Bladder (4), colorectal (2), prostate (1) 7
MSH6 4 Bladder (2), prostate (1), renal cell (1) 4
PALB2 5 Biliary (1), ovarian (1), pancreatic (1), prostate (1), renal cell (1) 5
PMS2 2 Prostate (1), small-bowel (1) 2
SDHA 2 Breast (1), renal cell (1) 2
SDHB 2 Paraganglioma (1), renal cell (1) 2
VHL 2 Renal cell (2) 2
Moderate Penetrance
ATM 15 Breast (1), colorectal (1), esophagogastric (1), pancreatic (5), prostate (7) 15
BRIP1 4 Breast (1), colorectal (1), prostate (2) 4
CHEK2 28a Breast (9), colorectal (1), endometrial (2), pancreatic (7), prostate (8), renal cell (5) 32
MITF 2 Prostate (2) 2
NBN 2 Prostate (2) 2
RAD51D 1 Non–small cell lung (1) 1
Low Penetrance
APC 19a Biliary (1), bladder (1), breast (1), colorectal (3), ovarian (1), pancreatic (7), prostate (7), renal cell (1), small-bowel (1), unknown primary (1) 24
MUTYH 14a Adrenocortical (1), biliary (1), breast (1), colorectal (1), pancreatic (3), prostate (5), renal cell (3), unknown primary (1) 16
Recessive Alleles
FHb 3a Pancreatic (1), prostate (4) 5
RECQL4 5a Breast (1), colorectal (1), endometrial (1), esophagogastric (1), prostate (1), renal cell (1) 6
Uncertain Clinical Actionability
BARD1 3 Pancreatic (1), prostate (1), renal cell (1) 3
CHEK2c 11 Bladder (1), breast (1), endometrial (1), pancreatic (2), prostate (5), renal cell (1) 11
FAM175A 0a Pancreatic (1) 1
RAD50 1 Pancreatic (1) 1
Total
Pathogenic variants by tumor type 205 Adrenocortical (1), ampullary (1), biliary (6), bladder (10), breast (19), colorectal (10), endometrial (4), esophagogastric (6), melanoma (1), mesothelioma (1), non–small cell lung (2), ovarian (7), pancreatic (49), paraganglioma (1), prostate (75), renal cell (23), small-bowel (2), unknown primary (2) 220
a

For the determination of the total number of patients with advanced cancer with pathogenic variants per gene, patients with 2 pathogenic variants were classified according to the higher-penetrance variant (eAppendix 5 in Supplement 1), resulting in different values compared with the total number of pathogenic variants by gene.

b

Refers to the FH c. 1431_1433dupAAA (p. Lys477dup) mutation considered as a recessive allele.

c

Refers to the CHEK2 c.470T>C (p.Ile157Thr) mutation classified as a variant of uncertain clinical actionability.