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A NOVEL GERMLINE TP53 MUTATION IN A PATIENT WITH LI-FRAUMENI SYNDROME - RESOLVING A VARIANT OF UNCERTAIN SIGNIFICANCE
  • David Douglass,
  • Kimo Stine,
  • Jason Farrar
David Douglass
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

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Kimo Stine
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
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Jason Farrar
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
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Abstract

Increasing availability of genomic testing poses new challenges to clinicians, particularly where variant interpretation from commercial sources may be equivocal. We report a patient with recurrent rhabdomyosarcoma and subsequent bilateral breast cancer who was found to harbor a previously undescribed germline TP53 sequence alteration annotated by the commercial laboratory as a variant of uncertain significance (VUS). By investigating publically available databases of aggregated normal germline and malignant somatic genomic sequences, we conclude that this missense variant, c.476C>T (p.A159V), is a novel, pathogenic Li-Fraumeni syndrome mutation, and illustrate the utility of these resources in clinical pediatric hematology and oncology practice.
25 Feb 2021Published in Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology volume Publish Ahead of Print. 10.1097/MPH.0000000000002115