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Moreover, mutations in MLH6 have a low incidence of microsatellite instability and preferentially occur in mononucleotide sequences. Rossi et al. There were five missense, one nonsense, three frameshift and one splice defect. Lynch et al. In , Nicolaides et al.
In two unrelated families, they identified an in-frame deletion and a nonsense mutation in PMS1 and PMS2 , respectively. One year later, in , Hamilton et al. In , Miyaki et al. In , De Rosa et al. In this study, the patient was young and the mutations were inherited from both his father and his mother, who were heterozygous for PMS2. Interestingly, although both the parents and another five members of the family were heterozygous for one of the mutations, none of them presented any increased predisposition towards cancer.
This discovery led the researchers to make the interpretation that biallelic inactivation of the PMS2 gene would be needed in order to produce predisposition towards cancer, thereby confirming the idea of the two-hit model proposed by Knudson. More recently, Nakagawa et al. It is formed by the COOH terminus and is capable of generating false unmutated alleles wild-type alleles.
According to data from the National Center for Biotechnology Information, there are at least 13 sequences homologous to PMS2 , in different areas. Nakagawa et al. Furthermore, they stated that the small number of mutations in exons 1 to 5 of PMS2 may be due to the existence of other homologous areas.
This suggests that mutations in PMS2 may be much more common than hitherto thought. The great number of homologues may have greatly decreased the ability to detect mutations in PMS2. A recent study by Hendriks et al. Among these seven individuals, six presented an autosomal-dominant inheritance pattern.
This strongly indicates that heterozygous PMS2 can predispose towards cancer, i. With the discovery of multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification MLPA , it became possible to recognize, surprisingly, that a great proportion of the mutations resulting from genomic rearrangements of one or several exons deletions affected the MLH1 and MSH2 genes.
Ainsworth et al. Zhang et al. According to Pistorius et al. Despite much research on genetic abnormalities in the coding regions of the mismatch repair genes in Lynch syndrome cases, the genetic abnormalities in the promoter of these genes have been poorly investigated.
Recent studies have been defining and characterizing germline mutations in the central area of the promoters of these genes.
Shin et al. These were all in individuals in whom no germline mutations had been detected. These mutations in the promoter significantly decreased its activity, thus affecting the initiation of the transcription site and the binding site of the transcriptional factor, and resulting in a new DNA-protein complex.
These results are indicative that mutations in MSH2 promoter are responsible for the initial tumor-forming process in a minority of Lynch syndrome cases. Gazzoli et al. Epigenetic changes in the human genome may affect the cytosine as well as the chromatin structure. In the great majority of expressed genes, the CpG islands are found in the promoter. When methylation takes place, the transcription factors cannot link at the promoter area, thereby inhibiting transcription, and consequently the gene is silenced.
Studies have been demonstrating that hypermethylation of MLH1 , also known as epimutation, is not limited to neoplastic cells. In certain patients, hypermethylation of a single allele originates during germination and is distributed throughout the somatic cells. Although germline mutations in genes are transmitted faithfully across the generations in a Mendelian pattern, epimutations do not involve changes to the DNA sequence. They are relatively unstable, because of the process of epigenetic reprogramming in germline cells.
Hitchins et al. They found that two patients presented a typical germline epimutation in MLH1 , with all their somatic cells hemimethylated. A son of one of these patients presented partial methylation of MLH1 ; however, the analysis of his spermatozoids did not demonstrate any methylation profile in that gene. In the other patient, even though she had passed on her haplotype to one of her children, no evidence of methylation was found, probably due to reversion during gametogenesis.
These results suggest that incomplete reversion of the epimutation occurred, with the possibility that the donated allele might have greater susceptibility towards undergoing subsequent somatic methylation in the next generation.
Family members who inherit Lynch syndrome usually share the same mutation. If one of your family members has a known Lynch syndrome gene mutation, other family members who get genetic testing should be checked for that mutation. If you are concerned that you could have Lynch syndrome, or another mutation related to colorectal cancer, the first step is to collect your family health history of colorectal cancer and share this information with your doctor. Skip directly to site content Skip directly to page options Skip directly to A-Z link.
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