Exome sequencing identifies MAX mutations as a cause of hereditary pheochromocytoma
- 19 June 2011
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Genetics
- Vol. 43 (7), 663-667
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.861
Abstract
Hereditary pheochromocytoma (PCC) is often caused by germline mutations in one of nine susceptibility genes described to date1,2,3,4, but there are familial cases without mutations in these known genes. We sequenced the exomes of three unrelated individuals with hereditary PCC (cases) and identified mutations in MAX, the MYC associated factor X gene. Absence of MAX protein in the tumors and loss of heterozygosity caused by uniparental disomy supported the involvement of MAX alterations in the disease. A follow-up study of a selected series of 59 cases with PCC identified five additional MAX mutations and suggested an association with malignant outcome and preferential paternal transmission of MAX mutations. The involvement of the MYC-MAX-MXD1 network in the development and progression of neural crest cell tumors is further supported by the lack of functional MAX in rat PCC (PC12) cells5 and by the amplification of MYCN in neuroblastoma6 and suggests that loss of MAX function is correlated with metastatic potential.Keywords
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