Breast and ovarian cancer incidence in BRCA1-mutation carriers. Breast Cancer Linkage Consortium.

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Dominant predisposition to early-onset breast cancer and/or ovarian cancer in many families is known to be the result of germ-line mutations in a gene on chromosome 17q, known as BRCA1. In this paper we use data from families with evidence of linkage to BRCA1 to estimate the age-specific risks of breast and ovarian cancer in BRCA1-mutation carriers and to examine the variation in risk between and within families....

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