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    Bandeira, Isabel Cristina; Vieira, Igor Araujo; Andreis, Tiago Finger; Brussa Reis, Larissa; Macedo, Gabriel S.; Vianna, Fernanda Sales Luiz; Santos-Silva, Patricia; Palmero, Edenir Inez; Galvão, Henrique de Campos Reis; Ramos, Cintia Regina Niederauer; Santiago, Karina Miranda; Achatz, Maria Isabel; da Costa, Alexandre André Balieiro Anastácio; Ashton-Prolla, Patricia

    Cancer genetics, January 2020, 2020-01-00, 20200101, Volume: 240
    Journal Article

    •Further evidence of MIR605 rs2043556 as phenotype modulator in Li-fraumeni patients.•rs2043556GG genotype was associated with multiple primary tumors in these patients.•Interestingly, a patient harboring TP53 classical variant exhibited GG genotype. Li-Fraumeni and Li-Fraumeni-like (LFS/LFL) Syndrome are cancer predisposition syndromes caused by germline pathogenic variants in TP53 and are associated with an increased risk of multiple early-onset cancers. In Southern and Southeastern Brazil, a germline founder variant with partial penetrance located in the oligomerization domain of TP53, c.1010G>A p.(Arg337His, commonly known as R337H), has been detected in 0.3% of the general population. Recently, the functional MIR605 variant rs2043556 (A>G) has been identified as a novel LFS phenotype modifier in families with germline TP53 DNA binding variants. In this study, our goal was to verify MIR605 rs2043556 allele frequencies and further explore its possible effects on the phenotype of 238 Brazilian individuals carrying TP53 p.(Arg337His). The MIR605 rs2043556 G allele was detected in 136 (57.1%) individuals, including 25 homozygotes (10.5%), and although it had been previously associated with an earlier mean age of tumor onset, this effect was not observed in this study (p = 0.8). However, in p.(Arg337His) mutation carriers, the GG genotype was significantly associated with the occurrence of multiple primary tumors (p = 0.005). We provide further evidence of MIR605 rs2043556 G allele's effect as a phenotype modulator in carriers of germline TP53 pathogenic variants.