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The association between age at breast cancer diagnosis and prevalence of pathogenic variants.
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 Jun 2023
Daly Mary B, Rosenthal Eric, Cummings Shelly, Bernhisel Ryan, Kidd John, Hughes Elisha, Gutin Alexander, Meek Stephanie, Slavin Thomas P, Kurian Allison W
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Young age at breast cancer (BC) diagnosis and family history of BC are strongly associated with high prevalence of pathogenic variants (PVs) in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. There is limited evidence for such associations with moderate/high penetrance BC-risk genes such as ATM, CHEK2, and PALB2. METHODS: We analyzed multi-gene panel testing results (09/2013-12/2019) for women unaffected by any cancer...
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