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Germline Genetic Testing for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer: Current Concepts in Risk Evaluation.
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine - 1 Aug 2024
Yadav Siddhartha, Couch Fergus J, Domchek Susan M
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Our understanding of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer has significantly improved over the past two decades. In addition to BRCA1/2, pathogenic variants in several other DNA-repair genes have been shown to increase the risks of breast and ovarian cancer. The magnitude of cancer risk is impacted not only by the gene involved, but also by family history of cancer, polygenic risk scores, and, in certain genes,...
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