InDEL instability in two different tumoral tissues and its forensic significance. 2024

İpek Gürel, and Faruk Aşıcıoğlu, and Gökhan Ersoy, and Özlem Bülbül, and Tülin Öztürk, and Gönül Filoğlu
Department of Science, Institute of Forensic Sciences and Legal Medicine, İstanbul University- Cerrahpaşa, İstanbul, Türkiye.

There may be cases where malignant tumor samples can be used for forensic DNA profiling studies. STRs are the first systems preferred in forensic science laboratories for identification purposes. However, genetic instability in tumoral tissues causes STR polymorphism to change, leading to erroneous results. On the other hand, insertion/deletion polymorphism (InDels) are used as genetic markers in forensic science, as they have features that make both STR and SNPs preferable. Although previous studies approved that STR instability is observed in many different tumors, there are only a few studies that have displayed the instability of InDels in tumoral tissues before. In this study, it was aimed to determine whether instability is observed in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded breast and thyroid tumoral tissues at 36plex InDel Panel. A total of 47 cases, 26 of which were diagnosed as breast cancer and 21 as thyroid cancer, were included in the study. In 21 of 26 (80.76%) breast cancers mutational changes were observed, however only 6 of 21 (28.57%) thyroid carcinoma cases displayed instability.Moreover, in these six cases, mutations were detected at only 1 or 2 loci. The most common change in both tissues was loss of heterozygosity. These findings suggest that paraffin embedded tissues of thyroid tumor can be used in cases of forensic genetic identification, however paraffin embedded breast cancer tissues should be examined with care. In conclusion, low InDel mutation rates compared to STR instability, make InDel analysis from paraffin blocks suitable for forensic genetic identification. However, researchers should keep in mind that there may be differences between the profiles of the tumoral tissues taken as reference and the actual case. In addition, by incorporating additional markers such as SNPs and microhaplotypes with low mutation rates into the study alongside Indels, researchers can significantly enhance the discrimination power in identification processes.

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