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BAT-26 identifies sporadic colorectal cancers with mutator phenotype: a correlative study with clinico-pathological features and mutations in mismatch repair genes

1999; Volume: 188; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/(sici)1096-9896(199907)188

1096-9896

Marília Cravo, Pedro Lage, Cristina Albuquerque, Paula Chaves, Isabel Claro, Teresa Gomes, Cláudia Gaspar, Paulo Fidalgo, Janine Soares, C. Nobre-Leit�o,

Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics

Microsatellite instability (MSI) is present in most colorectal cancers (CRC) associated with hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC). MSI testing in so-called sporadic forms of CRC may become a useful tool in identifying new HNPCC kindred. The aim of this study was to analyse the utility of BAT-26 as a marker to identify CRCs with MSI and to investigate whether sporadic CRCs with MSI have a phenotypic expression similar to HNPCC cases. MSI was detected using two methods, an association of 7 poly(CA) repeats and a poly(A) repeat alone, BAT-26, in a series of 62 patients with apparently sporadic forms of CRC. Germ-line and somatic mutations in the hMSH2, hMLH1, and hMSH6 genes were analysed in patients with MSI+ tumours. Patients with MSI+ at poly(CA) loci and at BAT-26 were younger (p = 0·024 and p = 0·002), had tumours more frequently right sided (p = 0·017 and p = 0·0001) and more often mucinous (p = 0·037 and p = 0·005, respectively) than patients with MSI negative tumours. Mutation analysis allowed the identification of two patients carrying germ-line mutations in the hMLH1 gene (both were BAT-26+) and two other patients who had somatic mutation in the hMSH2 and in hMLH1 genes. In conclusion, the detection of MSI using poly(CA) repeats or BAT-26 alone allowed the identification of a subset of patients with clinico-pathological characteristics similar to those associated to HNPCC. BAT-26 has the advantage of being a simple and less expensive method that might be used as a screening procedure before mutation analysis. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.