Article
Shared inheritance reveals landscape of somatic and germline cancer risk in TP53.
American journal of human genetics - 3 Sept 2026
MacGregor Hamish A J, Blundell Jamie R, Easton Douglas F
Abstract excerpt
Pathogenic variants in TP53, the key tumor suppressor gene underlying Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS), are among the best-established causes of inherited cancer predisposition. However, large-scale sequencing has revealed that many apparently pathogenic TP53 variants detected in blood are the result of somatic clonal expansions, complicating risk interpretation. Using blood-derived whole-exome data from 469,391 UK...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
- Humans
- Tumor Suppressor Protein p53
- Germ-Line Mutation
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Li-Fraumeni Syndrome
- Female
