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High-Resolution Genetic Map of X-Linked Juvenile-Type Granulosa Cell Tumor Susceptibility Genes in Mouse

The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine

SWR/Bm (SWR) female mice spontaneously develop early-onset ovarian granulosa cell (GC) tumors that can progress to metastatic carcinoma and thus provide a model system for human, juvenile-type GC tumors. In SWR mice, GC tumor susceptibility is an inherited, polygenic trait that appears at a low frequency. A dramatic increase in tumor frequency occurs when the autosomal SWR genetic complement is combined with the X-linked Gct4 allele of the mouse strain SJL/Bm (SJL). The modifier effect of the SJL Gct4 allele (Gct4^J) also shows a strong parent-of-origin effect, occurring only when the Gct4^J allele is paternally inherited. To genetically localize Gct4, we generated seven congenic mouse strains (SWR.SJL-X1 through -X7) that contained a defined segment of the SJL X chromosome (Chr) on the SWR autosomal strain background and mapped Gct4 to a 3 cM region. To better define the location of Gct4, we created an additional congenic strain (SWR.CAST-X) that contains most of the genetically polymorphic Chr X from the strain CAST/Ei. From crosses of the SWR.CAST-X and SWR.SJL-X congenic strains, we derived males carrying unique combinations of SJL-X and CAST-X segments. Progeny testing subsequently revealed a second SJL-derived, GC tumor frequency modifier gene, Gct6, located 6.5 cM distal to Gct4 on Chr X. In summary, we have mapped two modifier genes on the mouse Chr X that cause high-frequency, juvenile-type GC tumor development in female mice. The identity of these genes will provide a solid foundation for determination of tumor susceptibility genes in human cases of juvenile-type GC tumors.

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