Germline BRCA2 mutation in a case of aggressive prostate cancer accompanied by spinal bulbar muscular atrophy
作者机构:Department of UrologyKeio University School of Medicine35 ShinanomachiShinjuku-kuTokyo 160-8582Japan Genomics UnitKeio Cancer CenterKeio University School of Medicine35 ShinanomachiShinjuku-kuTokyo 160-8582Japan Division of Diagnostic PathologyKeio University Hospital35 ShinanomachiShinjuku-kuTokyo 160-8582Japan Department of Medical OncologyDana-Farber Cancer Institute450 Brookline AvenueBostonMA 02215USA
出 版 物:《Asian Journal of Andrology》 (亚洲男性学杂志(英文版))
年 卷 期:2022年第24卷第1期
页 面:116-118页
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学科分类:1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学]
基 金:Yoko Suzuki provided technical assistance.This study was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(#17K16813 to H Hongo and#17K11158 and#20H03817 to TK)from the Ministry of Education,Culture,Sports,Science,and Technology of Japan The study was supported in part by research Grant to TK from the Takeda Science Foundation,Japan
摘 要:Dear Editor,Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy(SBMA)or Kennedy’s disease is a rare X-linked,recessive,lower motor neuron disease caused by a CAG repeat expansion within the first exon of the androgen receptor(AR)*** of the CAG-triplet repeat impacts AR function;therefore,men with SBMA are thought to be at a very low risk of prostate *** previously reported a case of high-risk prostate cancer with SBMA(repeat length 46).