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Increased Prevalence of Germline Pathogenic CHEK2 Variants in Individuals With Pituitary Adenomas.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 15 Oct 2024
De Sousa Sunita M C, McCormack Ann, Orsmond Andreas, Shen Angeline, Yates Christopher J, Clifton-Bligh Roderick, Santoreneos Stephen, King James, Feng Jinghua, Toubia John, Torpy David J, Scott Hamish S
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CONTEXT: CHEK2 is a cell cycle checkpoint regulator gene with a long-established role as a clinically relevant, moderate risk breast cancer predisposition gene, with greater risk ascribed to truncating variants than missense variants. OBJECTIVE: To assess the rate and pathogenicity of CHEK2 variants amongst individuals with pituitary adenomas (PAs). METHODS: We assessed 165 individuals with PAs for CHEK2...
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