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Parental origin of mutation and the risk of breast cancer in a prospective study of women with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation.
Clinical genetics - 1 Jul 2013
Senst N, Llacuachaqui M, Lubinski J, Lynch H, Armel S, Neuhausen S, Ghadirian P, Sun P, Narod S A
Abstract excerpt
The objective is to estimate the risk of breast cancer in women who carry a deleterious BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation, according to parental origin of mutation. We conducted a cohort study of women with a BRCA1 mutation (n = 1523) or BRCA2 mutation (n = 369) who had not been diagnosed with breast or ovarian cancer. For each woman, the pedigree was reviewed and the origin of the mutation was assigned as probable...
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