TY - JOUR
T1 - Estimating CDKN2A carrier probability and personalizing cancer risk assessments in hereditary melanoma using melaPRO
AU - Wang, Wenyi
AU - Niendorf, Kristin B.
AU - Patel, Devanshi
AU - Blackford, Amanda
AU - Marroni, Fabio
AU - Sober, Arthur J.
AU - Parmigiani, Giovanni
AU - Tsao, Hensin
PY - 2010/1/15
Y1 - 2010/1/15
N2 - Personalized cancer risk assessment remains an essential imperative in postgenomic cancer medicine. In hereditary melanoma, germline CDKN2A mutations have been reproducibly identified in melanoma-prone kindreds worldwide. However, genetic risk counseling for hereditary melanoma remains clinically challenging. To address this challenge, we developed and validated MelaPRO, an algorithm that provides germline CDKN2A mutation probabilities and melanoma risk to individuals from melanoma-prone families. MelaPRO builds on comprehensive genetic information, and uses Mendelian modeling to provide fine resolution and high accuracy. In an independent validation of 195 individuals from 167 families, MelaPRO exhibited good discrimination with a concordance index (C) of 0.86 [95% confidence intervals (95% CI), 0.75-0.97] and good calibration, with no significant difference between observed and predicted carriers (26; 95% CI, 20-35, as compared with 22 observed). In cross-validation, MelaPRO outperformed the existing predictive model MELPREDICT (C, 0.82; 95% CI, 0.61-0.93), with a difference of 0.05 (95% CI, 0.007-0.17). MelaPRO is a clinically accessible tool that can effectively provide personalized risk counseling for all members of hereditary melanoma families.
AB - Personalized cancer risk assessment remains an essential imperative in postgenomic cancer medicine. In hereditary melanoma, germline CDKN2A mutations have been reproducibly identified in melanoma-prone kindreds worldwide. However, genetic risk counseling for hereditary melanoma remains clinically challenging. To address this challenge, we developed and validated MelaPRO, an algorithm that provides germline CDKN2A mutation probabilities and melanoma risk to individuals from melanoma-prone families. MelaPRO builds on comprehensive genetic information, and uses Mendelian modeling to provide fine resolution and high accuracy. In an independent validation of 195 individuals from 167 families, MelaPRO exhibited good discrimination with a concordance index (C) of 0.86 [95% confidence intervals (95% CI), 0.75-0.97] and good calibration, with no significant difference between observed and predicted carriers (26; 95% CI, 20-35, as compared with 22 observed). In cross-validation, MelaPRO outperformed the existing predictive model MELPREDICT (C, 0.82; 95% CI, 0.61-0.93), with a difference of 0.05 (95% CI, 0.007-0.17). MelaPRO is a clinically accessible tool that can effectively provide personalized risk counseling for all members of hereditary melanoma families.
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U2 - 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-2653
DO - 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-2653
M3 - Article
C2 - 20068151
AN - SCOPUS:76549103663
SN - 0008-5472
VL - 70
SP - 552
EP - 559
JO - Cancer Research
JF - Cancer Research
IS - 2
ER -