TY - JOUR T1 - Exome sequencing identifies <em>MUTYH</em> mutations in a family with colorectal cancer and an atypical phenotype JF - Gut JO - Gut SP - 355 LP - 356 DO - 10.1136/gutjnl-2014-307084 VL - 64 IS - 2 AU - Nuria Seguí AU - Matilde Navarro AU - Marta Pineda AU - Nicole Köger AU - Fernando Bellido AU - Sara González AU - Olga Campos AU - Silvia Iglesias AU - Rafael Valdés-Mas AU - Adriana López-Doriga AU - Marta Gut AU - Ignacio Blanco AU - Conxi Lázaro AU - Gabriel Capellá AU - Xose S Puente AU - Guido Plotz AU - Laura Valle Y1 - 2015/02/01 UR - http://gut.bmj.com/content/64/2/355.abstract N2 - Ma et al 1 comprehensively assessed the association of previously reported genetic variants with colorectal cancer (CRC) risk. The meta-analyses revealed strong evidence for association with rare MUTYH variants, even when excluding cases with MUTYH-associated polyposis. An article by Nieuwenhuis et al 2 accurately defined the phenotypical features of MUTYH-associated polyposis. However, the study was performed on clinic-based series ascertained based on the inheritance model or the presence of polyps, which may miss additional phenotypes relevant to improve the disease characterisation and therefore, its genetic diagnosis. To illustrate this, we report a family with a clinical phenotype that resembled Lynch syndrome but was caused by MUTYH mutations.To identify novel hereditary CRC genes, we studied an Amsterdam I family (hereditary non-polyposis CRC) with no mutations in the DNA mismatch repair (MMR) genes (figure 1, table 1). By exome sequencing performed on four cancer-affected (II.2, II.6, III.1 and III.6) and one cancer-free (III.5) family members, we identified a total of 11 unreported or rare heterozygous variants present in the cancer-affected individuals (see online supplementary table S1). One of them was MUTYH c.1147delC … ER -