2020
Estimation of the carrier frequency of fumarate hydratase alterations and implications for kidney cancer risk in hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cancer
Shuch B, Li S, Risch H, Bindra RS, McGillivray PD, Gerstein M. Estimation of the carrier frequency of fumarate hydratase alterations and implications for kidney cancer risk in hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cancer. Cancer 2020, 126: 3657-3666. PMID: 32413184, PMCID: PMC10316675, DOI: 10.1002/cncr.32914.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsFumarate hydrataseExome Aggregation ConsortiumAllele frequenciesFH geneGenome ProjectDifferent world populationsFH alterationsHereditary leiomyomatosisKidney cancer riskCancer penetranceMissense alterationsGenesOverall allele frequencyRare variantsLow penetranceRenal cancerExACKidney cancerCancer riskPenetranceGermline mutationsLethal formWorld populationCancer syndromesAlterations
2018
Krebs-cycle-deficient hereditary cancer syndromes are defined by defects in homologous-recombination DNA repair
Sulkowski PL, Sundaram RK, Oeck S, Corso CD, Liu Y, Noorbakhsh S, Niger M, Boeke M, Ueno D, Kalathil AN, Bao X, Li J, Shuch B, Bindra RS, Glazer PM. Krebs-cycle-deficient hereditary cancer syndromes are defined by defects in homologous-recombination DNA repair. Nature Genetics 2018, 50: 1086-1092. PMID: 30013182, PMCID: PMC6072579, DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0170-4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDNA double-strand breaksPGL/PCCDNA repair deficiency syndromeHomologous recombination DNA repair pathwayDNA repair pathwaysDouble-strand breaksHomologous recombination DNA repairSynthetic lethal targetingGenomic integrityDNA repairFumarate hydrataseMechanistic basisCancer predispositionFunction mutationsGermline lossKrebs cycleSuccinate dehydrogenaseHereditary paragangliomaRespectively1–3Ribose polymerase inhibitorsHereditary leiomyomatosisHereditary cancer syndromesCancer syndromesTumor cellsPolymerase inhibitors