Article
CDH1 germline mutations and hereditary lobular breast cancer.
Familial cancer - 1 Apr 2016
Corso Giovanni, Intra Mattia, Trentin Chiara, Veronesi Paolo, Galimberti Viviana
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary diffuse gastric cancer is an autosomal dominant inherited disease associated of CDH1 germline mutations (that encodes for the E-cadherin protein), and lobular breast cancer is the second most frequent type of neoplasia. Recently, novel E-cadherin constitutional alterations have been identified in pedigree clustering only for lobular breast carcinoma without evidence of diffuse gastric tumors and in...
Topics
- Antigens, CD
- Breast Neoplasms
- Cadherins
- Carcinoma, Lobular
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genetic Testing
- Germ-Line Mutation
- Heterozygote
- Humans
- Mutation Rate
