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A new interesting article has been published in J Hum Genet. 2019 Dec; 64(12):1187-1194. doi: 10.1038/s10038-019-0674-5. Epub 2019 Oct 7. and titled:

Importance of gastric cancer for the diagnosis and surveillance of Japanese Lynch syndrome patients.

Authors of this article are:

Ikenoue T, Arai M, Ishioka C, Iwama T, Kaneko S, Matsubara N, Moriya Y, Nomizu T, Sugano K, Tamura K, Tomita N, Yoshida T, Sugihara K, Naruse H, Yamaguchi K, Nojima M, Nakamura Y, Furukawa Y,; Japanese society for cancer of the colon and rectum (JSCCR).

A summary of the article is shown below:

Lynch syndrome (LS) is an autosomal dominantly inherited disease predisposed to not only colorectal cancer but also other LS-related tumors. Although the clinical and genetic characteristics of LS in Western countries have been well characterized, the information of Japanese LS is limited. As a collaborative study of Japanese Society for Cancer of the Colon and Rectum (JSCCR), we registered colorectal cancer (CRC) patients who fulfilled the modified Amsterdam II criteria including gastric cancer as an LS-related tumor. Among 4030 CRC patients initially registered in this project, 85 patients (2.1%) fulfilled the modified criteria. An additional 26 patients who met the same criteria were enrolled in the analysis. We analyzed three major responsible genes, MLH1, MSH2, and MSH6 by direct sequencing, and further performed multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification for MLH1 and MSH2. Consequently, we identified pathogenic variants in 64 of the 111 patients comprising of 34 patients in MLH1, 28 in MSH2, and 2 in MSH6. It is of note that large structural alterations were found in 17 patients. Among the 64 patients, 11 patients would not have been enrolled in the analysis if gastric cancer were not included in the modified criteria. In addition, 10 of the 64 variant carriers (15.6%) had medical history of gastric cancer. Furthermore, the standardized incidence ratio of gastric cancer in the LS patients to the Japanese population is estimated to be as high as 20.2. These data underscore the importance of gastric cancer in the diagnosis and healthcare of Japanese LS patients.

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