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Germline Brca2 Heterozygosity Promotes KrasG12D -Driven Carcinogenesis in a Murine Model of Familial Pancreatic Cancer

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Title
Germline Brca2 Heterozygosity Promotes KrasG12D -Driven Carcinogenesis in a Murine Model of Familial Pancreatic Cancer
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Cancer Cell, November 2010
DOI 10.1016/j.ccr.2010.10.015
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Authors

Ferdinandos Skoulidis, Liam D. Cassidy, Venkat Pisupati, Jon G. Jonasson, Hordur Bjarnason, Jorunn E. Eyfjord, Florian A. Karreth, Michael Lim, Lorraine M. Barber, Susan A. Clatworthy, Susan E. Davies, Kenneth P. Olive, David A. Tuveson, Ashok R. Venkitaraman

Abstract

Inherited heterozygous BRCA2 mutations predispose carriers to tissue-specific cancers, but somatic deletion of the wild-type allele is considered essential for carcinogenesis. We find in a murine model of familial pancreatic cancer that germline heterozygosity for a pathogenic Brca2 truncation suffices to promote pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDACs) driven by Kras(G12D), irrespective of Trp53 status. Unexpectedly, tumor cells retain a functional Brca2 allele. Correspondingly, three out of four PDACs from patients inheriting BRCA2(999del5) did not exhibit loss-of-heterozygosity (LOH). Three tumors from these patients displaying LOH were acinar carcinomas, which also developed only in mice with biallelic Brca2 inactivation. We suggest a revised model for tumor suppression by BRCA2 with implications for the therapeutic strategy targeting BRCA2 mutant cancer cells.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 2%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 112 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 29 24%
Researcher 26 22%
Professor > Associate Professor 13 11%
Student > Postgraduate 9 8%
Student > Master 7 6%
Other 17 14%
Unknown 18 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 35 29%
Medicine and Dentistry 31 26%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 27 23%
Unspecified 2 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 <1%
Other 3 3%
Unknown 20 17%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 September 2023.
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#37,396
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#20
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