A clinical case of hereditary papillary thyroid carcinoma associated with a germline DICER1 gene mutation

Abstract

Here, we report a clinical case of isolated papillary thyroid cancer associated with a germline DICER1 gene mutation in a boy and his father. The father underwent surgery for a euthyroid multinodular goiter at the age of 7 and 9 years. On examination at the age of 27 years, he was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer. At the age of 7 years, the boy was suspected of having a multinodular goiter (based on thyroid ultrasonography findings); he underwent total thyroidectomy. A histological examination of the surgical material revealed encapsulated papillary carcinoma. Neither boy nor his father had been exposed to radiation or chemotherapy before the diagnosis of papillary thyroid cancer. To clarify the etiology of disease, a molecular genetic testing was performed using next-generation sequencing (NGS). The proband and his parent had a heterozygous thymine deletion in the exon 4 at position 380, which led to a shift in the reading frame with the formation of a premature stop codon (c.380delT p.L127QfsX3).