Germline pathogenic variants in predispose to various cancers, including melanoma, pancreatic cancer, and neural system tumors, whereas variants are associated with renal cell carcinoma. A few case reports have described heterozygous germline deletions spanning both and associated with a cancer predisposition syndrome (CPS) that constitutes a risk of cancer beyond those associated with haploinsufficiency of each gene individually, indicating an additive effect or a contiguous gene deletion syndrome. We report a young woman with a de novo germline 9p21 microdeletion involving the / genes who developed six primary cancers since childhood, including a very rare extraskeletal osteosarcoma (eOS) at the age of 8. To our knowledge this is the first report of eOS in a patient with / deletion.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/mcs.a006164 | DOI Listing |
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