Germline de novo mutations in families with Mendelian cancer syndromes caused by defects in DNA repair

Sherwood, Kitty, Ward, Joseph C., Soriano, Ignacio, Martin, Lynn, Campbell, Archie, Rahbari, Raheleh, Kafetzopoulos, Ioannis, Sproul, Duncan, Green, Andrew, Sampson, Julian R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2902-2348, Donaldson, Alan, Ong, Kai-Ren, Heinimann, Karl, Nielsen, Maartje, Thomas, Huw, Latchford, Andrew, Palles, Claire and Tomlinson, Ian 2023. Germline de novo mutations in families with Mendelian cancer syndromes caused by defects in DNA repair. Nature Communications 14 , 3636. 10.1038/s41467-023-39248-0

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Abstract

DNA repair defects underlie many cancer syndromes. We tested whether de novo germline mutations (DNMs) are increased in families with germline defects in polymerase proofreading or base excision repair. A parent with a single germline POLE or POLD1 mutation, or biallelic MUTYH mutations, had 3-4 fold increased DNMs over sex-matched controls. POLE had the largest effect. The DNMs carried mutational signatures of the appropriate DNA repair deficiency. No DNM increase occurred in offspring of MUTYH heterozygous parents. Parental DNA repair defects caused about 20–150 DNMs per child, additional to the ~60 found in controls, but almost all extra DNMs occurred in non-coding regions. No increase in post-zygotic mutations was detected, excepting a child with bi-allelic MUTYH mutations who was excluded from the main analysis; she had received chemotherapy and may have undergone oligoclonal haematopoiesis. Inherited DNA repair defects associated with base pair-level mutations increase DNMs, but phenotypic consequences appear unlikely.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Additional Information:	There is a correction to this article - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39587-y License information from Publisher: LICENSE 1: URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, Type: open-access Author correction added 28/06/2023: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39587-y
Publisher:	Nature Research
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	20 June 2023
Date of Acceptance:	31 May 2023
Last Modified:	11 Oct 2023 19:36
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/160472

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