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Sequence Variants and Haplotype Analysis of Cat ERBB2 Gene: A Survey on Spontaneous Cat Mammary Neoplastic and Non-Neoplastic Lesions

The human ERBB2 proto-oncogene is widely considered a key gene involved in human breast cancer onset and progression. Among spontaneous tumors, mammary tumors are the most frequent cause of cancer death in cats and second most frequent in humans. In fact, naturally occurring tumors in domestic anima...

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Autores principales: Santos, Sara, Bastos, Estela, Baptista, Cláudia S., Sá, Daniela, Caloustian, Christophe, Guedes-Pinto, Henrique, Gärtner, Fátima, Gut, Ivo G., Chaves, Raquel
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Publicado: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3317687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22489125
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms13032783
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author Santos, Sara
Bastos, Estela
Baptista, Cláudia S.
Sá, Daniela
Caloustian, Christophe
Guedes-Pinto, Henrique
Gärtner, Fátima
Gut, Ivo G.
Chaves, Raquel
author_facet Santos, Sara
Bastos, Estela
Baptista, Cláudia S.
Sá, Daniela
Caloustian, Christophe
Guedes-Pinto, Henrique
Gärtner, Fátima
Gut, Ivo G.
Chaves, Raquel
author_sort Santos, Sara
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description The human ERBB2 proto-oncogene is widely considered a key gene involved in human breast cancer onset and progression. Among spontaneous tumors, mammary tumors are the most frequent cause of cancer death in cats and second most frequent in humans. In fact, naturally occurring tumors in domestic animals, more particularly cat mammary tumors, have been proposed as a good model for human breast cancer, but critical genetic and molecular information is still scarce. The aims of this study include the analysis of the cat ERBB2 gene partial sequences (between exon 17 and 20) in order to characterize a normal and a mammary lesion heterogeneous populations. Cat genomic DNA was extracted from normal frozen samples (n = 16) and from frozen and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded mammary lesion samples (n = 41). We amplified and sequenced two cat ERBB2 DNA fragments comprising exons 17 to 20. It was possible to identify five sequence variants and six haplotypes in the total population. Two sequence variants and two haplotypes show to be specific for cat mammary tumor samples. Bioinformatics analysis predicts that four of the sequence variants can produce alternative transcripts or activate cryptic splicing sites. Also, a possible association was identified between clinicopathological traits and the variant haplotypes. As far as we know, this is the first attempt to examine ERBB2 genetic variations in cat mammary genome and its possible association with the onset and progression of cat mammary tumors. The demonstration of a possible association between primary tumor size (one of the two most important prognostic factors) and the number of masses with the cat ERBB2 variant haplotypes reveal the importance of the analysis of this gene in veterinary medicine.
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spelling pubmed-33176872012-04-09 Sequence Variants and Haplotype Analysis of Cat ERBB2 Gene: A Survey on Spontaneous Cat Mammary Neoplastic and Non-Neoplastic Lesions Santos, Sara Bastos, Estela Baptista, Cláudia S. Sá, Daniela Caloustian, Christophe Guedes-Pinto, Henrique Gärtner, Fátima Gut, Ivo G. Chaves, Raquel Int J Mol Sci Article The human ERBB2 proto-oncogene is widely considered a key gene involved in human breast cancer onset and progression. Among spontaneous tumors, mammary tumors are the most frequent cause of cancer death in cats and second most frequent in humans. In fact, naturally occurring tumors in domestic animals, more particularly cat mammary tumors, have been proposed as a good model for human breast cancer, but critical genetic and molecular information is still scarce. The aims of this study include the analysis of the cat ERBB2 gene partial sequences (between exon 17 and 20) in order to characterize a normal and a mammary lesion heterogeneous populations. Cat genomic DNA was extracted from normal frozen samples (n = 16) and from frozen and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded mammary lesion samples (n = 41). We amplified and sequenced two cat ERBB2 DNA fragments comprising exons 17 to 20. It was possible to identify five sequence variants and six haplotypes in the total population. Two sequence variants and two haplotypes show to be specific for cat mammary tumor samples. Bioinformatics analysis predicts that four of the sequence variants can produce alternative transcripts or activate cryptic splicing sites. Also, a possible association was identified between clinicopathological traits and the variant haplotypes. As far as we know, this is the first attempt to examine ERBB2 genetic variations in cat mammary genome and its possible association with the onset and progression of cat mammary tumors. The demonstration of a possible association between primary tumor size (one of the two most important prognostic factors) and the number of masses with the cat ERBB2 variant haplotypes reveal the importance of the analysis of this gene in veterinary medicine. Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2012-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3317687/ /pubmed/22489125 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms13032783 Text en © 2012 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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Santos, Sara
Bastos, Estela
Baptista, Cláudia S.
Sá, Daniela
Caloustian, Christophe
Guedes-Pinto, Henrique
Gärtner, Fátima
Gut, Ivo G.
Chaves, Raquel
Sequence Variants and Haplotype Analysis of Cat ERBB2 Gene: A Survey on Spontaneous Cat Mammary Neoplastic and Non-Neoplastic Lesions
title Sequence Variants and Haplotype Analysis of Cat ERBB2 Gene: A Survey on Spontaneous Cat Mammary Neoplastic and Non-Neoplastic Lesions
title_full Sequence Variants and Haplotype Analysis of Cat ERBB2 Gene: A Survey on Spontaneous Cat Mammary Neoplastic and Non-Neoplastic Lesions
title_fullStr Sequence Variants and Haplotype Analysis of Cat ERBB2 Gene: A Survey on Spontaneous Cat Mammary Neoplastic and Non-Neoplastic Lesions
title_full_unstemmed Sequence Variants and Haplotype Analysis of Cat ERBB2 Gene: A Survey on Spontaneous Cat Mammary Neoplastic and Non-Neoplastic Lesions
title_short Sequence Variants and Haplotype Analysis of Cat ERBB2 Gene: A Survey on Spontaneous Cat Mammary Neoplastic and Non-Neoplastic Lesions
title_sort sequence variants and haplotype analysis of cat erbb2 gene: a survey on spontaneous cat mammary neoplastic and non-neoplastic lesions
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3317687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22489125
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms13032783
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