Browsing by Subject "Lymphoma, B-Cell"

Studies have shown that there is a familial risk in developing lymphomas. This thesis aimed to find candidate predisposing mutations for inherited non-Hodgkin lymphoma susceptibility in a Finnish pedigree. Exome sequences were available from two individuals in the pedigree, and common mutations were sought from exomes using bioinformatical tools. The validity and uniqueness of these common mutations were verified, and variation segregation was assessed by sequencing variation areas from all lymphoma patients in the pedigree. After filtering, 13 common variations were found, but due to variation's presence also in healthy control samples or the lack of segregation in the kindred, no candidate variation explaining non-Hodgkin lymphoma clustering in the pedigree was found. However, this study proved a group of mutations that probably do not need further studies as candidate variations for inheritable non-Hodgkin lymphoma. This study also provided rough comparison data for two different DNA sequence analysis programs.