Akrout Firas, Achour Ahlem, Tops Carli M J, Gallon Richard, Meddeb Rym, Achoura Sameh, Ben Rekaya Mariem, Hamdeni Emna, Rammeh Soumaya, Chkili Ridha, Mansouri Nada, Belguith Neila, Mrad Ridha
Department of Neurosurgery, Military Hospital of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia.
Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia.
Front Oncol. 2023 Aug 17;13:1195814. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2023.1195814. eCollection 2023.
Constitutional mismatch repair deficiency (CMMRD) syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive genetic disorder caused by biallelic germline mutations in one of the mismatch repair genes. Carriers are at exceptionally high risk for developing, typically in early life, hematological and brain malignancies, as well as cancers observed in Lynch syndrome. We report a homozygous missense variant (c.1918C>A p.(Pro640Thr)) in a Tunisian patient with CMMRD syndrome and a family history of early-age colorectal cancer. The proband presented initially with colonic oligopolyposis and adenosquamous carcinoma of the caecum. He later developed several malignancies, including undifferentiated carcinoma of the parotid, grade 4 IDH-mutant astrocytoma, and ampulla of Vater adenocarcinoma. The patient was older than typical for this disease and had a remarkably prolonged survival despite developing four distinct aggressive malignancies. The current report highlights the challenges in assessing the pathogenicity of the identified variant and the remarkable phenotypic diversity in CMMRD.
体质性错配修复缺陷(CMMRD)综合征是一种罕见的常染色体隐性遗传疾病,由错配修复基因之一的双等位基因种系突变引起。携带者患血液系统和脑恶性肿瘤以及林奇综合征中所见癌症的风险异常高,通常在生命早期发病。我们报告了一名患有CMMRD综合征且有早发性结直肠癌家族史的突尼斯患者中的一个纯合错义变体(c.1918C>A p.(Pro640Thr))。先证者最初表现为结肠寡息肉病和盲肠腺鳞癌。他后来发展为多种恶性肿瘤,包括腮腺未分化癌、4级异柠檬酸脱氢酶(IDH)突变型星形细胞瘤和 Vater壶腹腺癌。该患者发病年龄比这种疾病的典型情况要大,尽管患上了四种不同的侵袭性恶性肿瘤,但生存期显著延长。本报告强调了评估所鉴定变体致病性的挑战以及CMMRD中显著的表型多样性。