Grant, Robert C / Al-Sukhni, Wigdan / Borgida, Ayelet E / Holter, Spring / Kanji, Zaheer S / McPherson, Treasa / Whelan, Emily / Serra, Stefano / Trinh, Quang M / Peltekova, Vanya / Stein, Lincoln D / McPherson, John D / Gallinger, Steven. ·Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, M5G 1X5, Canada. ·Hum Genomics · Pubmed #23561644.

ABSTRACT: We sequenced 11 germline exomes from five families with familial pancreatic cancer (FPC). One proband had a germline nonsense variant in ATM with somatic loss of the variant allele. Another proband had a nonsense variant in PALB2 with somatic loss of the variant allele. Both variants were absent in a relative with FPC. These findings question the causal mechanisms of ATM and PALB2 in these families and highlight challenges in identifying the causes of familial cancer syndromes using exome sequencing.