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1. Genetically Predicted Body Mass Index and Breast Cancer Risk: Mendelian Randomization Analyses of Data from 145,000 Women of European Descent.

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Yan Guo, Shaneda Warren Andersen, Xiao-Ou Shu, Kyriaki Michailidou, Manjeet K Bolla, Qin Wang, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Roger L Milne, Marjanka K Schmidt, Jenny Chang-Claude, Allison Dunning, Stig E Bojesen, Habibul Ahsan, Kristiina Aittomäki, Irene L Andrulis, Hoda Anton-Culver, Volker Arndt, Matthias W Beckmann, Alicia Beeghly-Fadiel, Javier Benitez, Natalia V Bogdanova, Bernardo Bonanni, Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale, Judith Brand, Hiltrud Brauch, Hermann Brenner, Thomas Brüning, Barbara Burwinkel, Graham Casey, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Fergus J Couch, Angela Cox, Simon S Cross, Kamila Czene, Peter Devilee, Thilo Dörk, Martine Dumont, Peter A Fasching, Jonine Figueroa, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Olivia Fletcher, Henrik Flyger, Florentia Fostira, Marilie Gammon, Graham G Giles, Pascal Guénel, Christopher A Haiman, Ute Hamann, Maartje J Hooning, John L Hopper, Anna Jakubowska, Farzana Jasmine, Mark Jenkins, Esther M John, Nichola Johnson, Michael E Jones, Maria Kabisch, Muhammad Kibriya, Julia A Knight, Linetta B Koppert, Veli-Matti Kosma, Vessela Kristensen, Loic Le Marchand, Eunjung Lee, Jingmei Li, Annika Lindblom, Robert Luben, Jan Lubinski, Kathi E Malone, Arto Mannermaa, Sara Margolin, Frederik Marme, Catriona McLean, Hanne Meijers-Heijboer, Alfons Meindl, Susan L Neuhausen, Heli Nevanlinna, Patrick Neven, Janet E Olson, Jose I A Perez, Barbara Perkins, Paolo Peterlongo, Kelly-Anne Phillips, Katri Pylkäs, Anja Rudolph, Regina Santella, Elinor J Sawyer, Rita K Schmutzler, Caroline Seynaeve, Mitul Shah, Martha J Shrubsole, Melissa C Southey, Anthony J Swerdlow, Amanda E Toland, Ian Tomlinson, Diana Torres, Thérèse Truong, Giske Ursin, Rob B Van Der Luijt, Senno Verhoef, Alice S Whittemore, Robert Winqvist, Hui Zhao, Shilin Zhao, Per Hall, Jacques Simard, Peter Kraft, Paul Pharoah, David Hunter, Douglas F Easton, and Wei Zheng

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Medicine
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BackgroundObservational epidemiological studies have shown that high body mass index (BMI) is associated with a reduced risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women but an increased risk in postmenopausal women. It is unclear whether this association is mediated through shared genetic or environmental factors.MethodsWe applied Mendelian randomization to evaluate the association between BMI and risk of breast cancer occurrence using data from two large breast cancer consortia. We created a weighted BMI genetic score comprising 84 BMI-associated genetic variants to predicted BMI. We evaluated genetically predicted BMI in association with breast cancer risk using individual-level data from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC) (cases = 46,325, controls = 42,482). We further evaluated the association between genetically predicted BMI and breast cancer risk using summary statistics from 16,003 cases and 41,335 controls from the Discovery, Biology, and Risk of Inherited Variants in Breast Cancer (DRIVE) Project. Because most studies measured BMI after cancer diagnosis, we could not conduct a parallel analysis to adequately evaluate the association of measured BMI with breast cancer risk prospectively.ResultsIn the BCAC data, genetically predicted BMI was found to be inversely associated with breast cancer risk (odds ratio [OR] = 0.65 per 5 kg/m2 increase, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.56-0.75, p = 3.32 × 10-10). The associations were similar for both premenopausal (OR = 0.44, 95% CI:0.31-0.62, p = 9.91 × 10-8) and postmenopausal breast cancer (OR = 0.57, 95% CI: 0.46-0.71, p = 1.88 × 10-8). This association was replicated in the data from the DRIVE consortium (OR = 0.72, 95% CI: 0.60-0.84, p = 1.64 × 10-7). Single marker analyses identified 17 of the 84 BMI-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in association with breast cancer risk at p ConclusionsBMI predicted by genome-wide association studies (GWAS)-identified variants is inversely associated with the risk of both pre- and postmenopausal breast cancer. The reduced risk of postmenopausal breast cancer associated with genetically predicted BMI observed in this study differs from the positive association reported from studies using measured adult BMI. Understanding the reasons for this discrepancy may reveal insights into the complex relationship of genetic determinants of body weight in the etiology of breast cancer.

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2016
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2. Fine-Scale Mapping at 9p22.2 Identifies Candidate Causal Variants That Modify Ovarian Cancer Risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers.

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Elena Vigorito, Karoline B Kuchenbaecker, Jonathan Beesley, Julian Adlard, Bjarni A Agnarsson, Irene L Andrulis, Banu K Arun, Laure Barjhoux, Muriel Belotti, Javier Benitez, Andreas Berger, Anders Bojesen, Bernardo Bonanni, Carole Brewer, Trinidad Caldes, Maria A Caligo, Ian Campbell, Salina B Chan, Kathleen B M Claes, David E Cohn, Jackie Cook, Mary B Daly, Francesca Damiola, Rosemarie Davidson, Antoine de Pauw, Capucine Delnatte, Orland Diez, Susan M Domchek, Martine Dumont, Katarzyna Durda, Bernd Dworniczak, Douglas F Easton, Diana Eccles, Christina Edwinsdotter Ardnor, Ros Eeles, Bent Ejlertsen, Steve Ellis, D Gareth Evans, Lidia Feliubadalo, Florentia Fostira, William D Foulkes, Eitan Friedman, Debra Frost, Pragna Gaddam, Patricia A Ganz, Judy Garber, Vanesa Garcia-Barberan, Marion Gauthier-Villars, Andrea Gehrig, Anne-Marie Gerdes, Sophie Giraud, Andrew K Godwin, David E Goldgar, Christopher R Hake, Thomas V O Hansen, Sue Healey, Shirley Hodgson, Frans B L Hogervorst, Claude Houdayer, Peter J Hulick, Evgeny N Imyanitov, Claudine Isaacs, Louise Izatt, Angel Izquierdo, Lauren Jacobs, Anna Jakubowska, Ramunas Janavicius, Katarzyna Jaworska-Bieniek, Uffe Birk Jensen, Esther M John, Joseph Vijai, Beth Y Karlan, Karin Kast, KConFab Investigators, Sofia Khan, Ava Kwong, Yael Laitman, Jenny Lester, Fabienne Lesueur, Annelie Liljegren, Jan Lubinski, Phuong L Mai, Siranoush Manoukian, Sylvie Mazoyer, Alfons Meindl, Arjen R Mensenkamp, Marco Montagna, Katherine L Nathanson, Susan L Neuhausen, Heli Nevanlinna, Dieter Niederacher, Edith Olah, Olufunmilayo I Olopade, Kai-Ren Ong, Ana Osorio, Sue Kyung Park, Ylva Paulsson-Karlsson, Inge Sokilde Pedersen, Bernard Peissel, Paolo Peterlongo, Georg Pfeiler, Catherine M Phelan, Marion Piedmonte, Bruce Poppe, Miquel Angel Pujana, Paolo Radice, Gad Rennert, Gustavo C Rodriguez, Matti A Rookus, Eric A Ross, Rita Katharina Schmutzler, Jacques Simard, Christian F Singer, Thomas P Slavin, Penny Soucy, Melissa Southey, Doris Steinemann, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Grzegorz Sukiennicki, Christian Sutter, Csilla I Szabo, Muy-Kheng Tea, Manuel R Teixeira, Soo-Hwang Teo, Mary Beth Terry, Mads Thomassen, Maria Grazia Tibiletti, Laima Tihomirova, Silvia Tognazzo, Elizabeth J van Rensburg, Liliana Varesco, Raymonda Varon-Mateeva, Athanassios Vratimos, Jeffrey N Weitzel, Lesley McGuffog, Judy Kirk, Amanda Ewart Toland, Ute Hamann, Noralane Lindor, Susan J Ramus, Mark H Greene, Fergus J Couch, Kenneth Offit, Paul D P Pharoah, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, and Antonis C Antoniou

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Medicine, Science
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Population-based genome wide association studies have identified a locus at 9p22.2 associated with ovarian cancer risk, which also modifies ovarian cancer risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. We conducted fine-scale mapping at 9p22.2 to identify potential causal variants in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. Genotype data were available for 15,252 (2,462 ovarian cancer cases) BRCA1 and 8,211 (631 ovarian cancer cases) BRCA2 mutation carriers. Following genotype imputation, ovarian cancer associations were assessed for 4,873 and 5,020 SNPs in BRCA1 and BRCA 2 mutation carriers respectively, within a retrospective cohort analytical framework. In BRCA1 mutation carriers one set of eight correlated candidate causal variants for ovarian cancer risk modification was identified (top SNP rs10124837, HR: 0.73, 95%CI: 0.68 to 0.79, p-value 2× 10-16). These variants were located up to 20 kb upstream of BNC2. In BRCA2 mutation carriers one region, up to 45 kb upstream of BNC2, and containing 100 correlated SNPs was identified as candidate causal (top SNP rs62543585, HR: 0.69, 95%CI: 0.59 to 0.80, p-value 1.0 × 10-6). The candidate causal in BRCA1 mutation carriers did not include the strongest associated variant at this locus in the general population. In sum, we identified a set of candidate causal variants in a region that encompasses the BNC2 transcription start site. The ovarian cancer association at 9p22.2 may be mediated by different variants in BRCA1 mutation carriers and in the general population. Thus, potentially different mechanisms may underlie ovarian cancer risk for mutation carriers and the general population.

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2016
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3. Assessing associations between the AURKA-HMMR-TPX2-TUBG1 functional module and breast cancer risk in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers.

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Ignacio Blanco, Karoline Kuchenbaecker, Daniel Cuadras, Xianshu Wang, Daniel Barrowdale, Gorka Ruiz de Garibay, Pablo Librado, Alejandro Sánchez-Gracia, Julio Rozas, Núria Bonifaci, Lesley McGuffog, Vernon S Pankratz, Abul Islam, Francesca Mateo, Antoni Berenguer, Anna Petit, Isabel Català, Joan Brunet, Lidia Feliubadaló, Eva Tornero, Javier Benítez, Ana Osorio, Teresa Ramón y Cajal, Heli Nevanlinna, Kristiina Aittomäki, Banu K Arun, Amanda E Toland, Beth Y Karlan, Christine Walsh, Jenny Lester, Mark H Greene, Phuong L Mai, Robert L Nussbaum, Irene L Andrulis, Susan M Domchek, Katherine L Nathanson, Timothy R Rebbeck, Rosa B Barkardottir, Anna Jakubowska, Jan Lubinski, Katarzyna Durda, Katarzyna Jaworska-Bieniek, Kathleen Claes, Tom Van Maerken, Orland Díez, Thomas V Hansen, Lars Jønson, Anne-Marie Gerdes, Bent Ejlertsen, Miguel de la Hoya, Trinidad Caldés, Alison M Dunning, Clare Oliver, Elena Fineberg, Margaret Cook, Susan Peock, Emma McCann, Alex Murray, Chris Jacobs, Gabriella Pichert, Fiona Lalloo, Carol Chu, Huw Dorkins, Joan Paterson, Kai-Ren Ong, Manuel R Teixeira, Teixeira, Frans B L Hogervorst, Annemarie H van der Hout, Caroline Seynaeve, Rob B van der Luijt, Marjolijn J L Ligtenberg, Peter Devilee, Juul T Wijnen, Matti A Rookus, Hanne E J Meijers-Heijboer, Marinus J Blok, Ans M W van den Ouweland, Cora M Aalfs, Gustavo C Rodriguez, Kelly-Anne A Phillips, Marion Piedmonte, Stacy R Nerenstone, Victoria L Bae-Jump, David M O'Malley, Elena S Ratner, Rita K Schmutzler, Barbara Wappenschmidt, Kerstin Rhiem, Christoph Engel, Alfons Meindl, Nina Ditsch, Norbert Arnold, Hansjoerg J Plendl, Dieter Niederacher, Christian Sutter, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Doris Steinemann, Sabine Preisler-Adams, Karin Kast, Raymonda Varon-Mateeva, Andrea Gehrig, Anders Bojesen, Inge Sokilde Pedersen, Lone Sunde, Uffe Birk Jensen, Mads Thomassen, Torben A Kruse, Lenka Foretova, Paolo Peterlongo, Loris Bernard, Bernard Peissel, Giulietta Scuvera, Siranoush Manoukian, Paolo Radice, Laura Ottini, Marco Montagna, Simona Agata, Christine Maugard, Jacques Simard, Penny Soucy, Andreas Berger, Anneliese Fink-Retter, Christian F Singer, Christine Rappaport, Daphne Geschwantler-Kaulich, Muy-Kheng Tea, Georg Pfeiler, BCFR, Esther M John, Alex Miron, Susan L Neuhausen, Mary Beth Terry, Wendy K Chung, Mary B Daly, David E Goldgar, Ramunas Janavicius, Cecilia M Dorfling, Elisabeth J van Rensburg, Florentia Fostira, Irene Konstantopoulou, Judy Garber, Andrew K Godwin, Edith Olah, Steven A Narod, Gad Rennert, Shani Shimon Paluch, Yael Laitman, Eitan Friedman, SWE-BRCA, Annelie Liljegren, Johanna Rantala, Marie Stenmark-Askmalm, Niklas Loman, Evgeny N Imyanitov, Ute Hamann, kConFab Investigators, Amanda B Spurdle, Sue Healey, Jeffrey N Weitzel, Josef Herzog, David Margileth, Chiara Gorrini, Manel Esteller, Antonio Gómez, Sergi Sayols, Enrique Vidal, Holger Heyn, GEMO, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Melanie Léoné, Laure Barjhoux, Marion Fassy-Colcombet, Antoine de Pauw, Christine Lasset, Sandra Fert Ferrer, Laurent Castera, Pascaline Berthet, François Cornelis, Yves-Jean Bignon, Francesca Damiola, Sylvie Mazoyer, Olga M Sinilnikova, Christopher A Maxwell, Joseph Vijai, Mark Robson, Noah Kauff, Marina J Corines, Danylko Villano, Julie Cunningham, Adam Lee, Noralane Lindor, Conxi Lázaro, Douglas F Easton, Kenneth Offit, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Fergus J Couch, Antonis C Antoniou, and Miguel Angel Pujana

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Medicine, Science
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While interplay between BRCA1 and AURKA-RHAMM-TPX2-TUBG1 regulates mammary epithelial polarization, common genetic variation in HMMR (gene product RHAMM) may be associated with risk of breast cancer in BRCA1 mutation carriers. Following on these observations, we further assessed the link between the AURKA-HMMR-TPX2-TUBG1 functional module and risk of breast cancer in BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation carriers. Forty-one single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were genotyped in 15,252 BRCA1 and 8,211 BRCA2 mutation carriers and subsequently analyzed using a retrospective likelihood approach. The association of HMMR rs299290 with breast cancer risk in BRCA1 mutation carriers was confirmed: per-allele hazard ratio (HR) = 1.10, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.04-1.15, p = 1.9 x 10(-4) (false discovery rate (FDR)-adjusted p = 0.043). Variation in CSTF1, located next to AURKA, was also found to be associated with breast cancer risk in BRCA2 mutation carriers: rs2426618 per-allele HR = 1.10, 95% CI 1.03-1.16, p = 0.005 (FDR-adjusted p = 0.045). Assessment of pairwise interactions provided suggestions (FDR-adjusted pinteraction values > 0.05) for deviations from the multiplicative model for rs299290 and CSTF1 rs6064391, and rs299290 and TUBG1 rs11649877 in both BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. Following these suggestions, the expression of HMMR and AURKA or TUBG1 in sporadic breast tumors was found to potentially interact, influencing patients' survival. Together, the results of this study support the hypothesis of a causative link between altered function of AURKA-HMMR-TPX2-TUBG1 and breast carcinogenesis in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers.

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2015
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4. Prevalence of BRCA1 mutations in familial and sporadic greek ovarian cancer cases.

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Alexandra V Stavropoulou, Florentia Fostira, Maroulio Pertesi, Marianthi Tsitlaidou, Gerassimos E Voutsinas, Olga Triantafyllidou, Aristotelis Bamias, Meletios A Dimopoulos, Eleni Timotheadou, Dimitrios Pectasides, Christos Christodoulou, George Klouvas, Christos Papadimitriou, Thomas Makatsoris, George Pentheroudakis, Gerasimos Aravantinos, Vassilis Karydakis, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, George Fountzilas, and Irene Konstantopoulou

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Medicine, Science
Abstract

Germline mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes contribute to approximately 18% of hereditary ovarian cancers conferring an estimated lifetime risk from 15% to 50%. A variable incidence of mutations has been reported for these genes in ovarian cancer cases from different populations. In Greece, six mutations in BRCA1 account for 63% of all mutations detected in both BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of BRCA1 mutations in a Greek cohort of 106 familial ovarian cancer patients that had strong family history or metachronous breast cancer and 592 sporadic ovarian cancer cases. All 698 patients were screened for the six recurrent Greek mutations (including founder mutations c.5266dupC, p.G1738R and the three large deletions of exon 20, exons 23-24 and exon 24). In familial cases, the BRCA1 gene was consequently screened for exons 5, 11, 12, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. A deleterious BRCA1 mutation was found in 43/106 (40.6%) of familial cancer cases and in 27/592 (4.6%) of sporadic cases. The variant of unknown clinical significance p.V1833M was identified in 9/698 patients (1.3%). The majority of BRCA1 carriers (71.2%) presented a high-grade serous phenotype. Identifying a mutation in the BRCA1 gene among breast and/or ovarian cancer families is important, as it enables carriers to take preventive measures. All ovarian cancer patients with a serous phenotype should be considered for genetic testing. Further studies are warranted to determine the prevalence of mutations in the rest of the BRCA1 gene, in the BRCA2 gene, and other novel predisposing genes for breast and ovarian cancer.

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2013
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5. Correction: Prevalence of Mutations in Familial and Sporadic Greek Ovarian Cancer Cases.

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Alexandra V. Stavropoulou, Florentia Fostira, Maroulio Pertesi, Marianthi Tsitlaidou, Gerassimos E. Voutsinas, Olga Triantafyllidou, Aristotelis Bamias, Meletios A. Dimopoulos, Eleni Timotheadou, Dimitrios Pectasides, Christos Christodoulou, George Klouvas, Christos Papadimitriou, Thomas Makatsoris, George Pentheroudakis, Gerasimos Aravantinos, Vassilis Karydakis, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, George Fountzilas, and Irene Konstantopoulou

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Medicine, Science
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2013
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6. Prevalence of BRCA1 mutations in familial and sporadic greek ovarian cancer cases

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George Fountzilas, Alexandra V. Stavropoulou, Meletios A. Dimopoulos, Gerassimos E. Voutsinas, George Pentheroudakis, Thomas Makatsoris, Florentia Fostira, Dimitrios Pectasides, Eleni Timotheadou, Gerasimos Aravantinos, G. Klouvas, Maroulio Pertesi, Olga Triantafyllidou, Christos Christodoulou, Irene Konstantopoulou, Vassilis Karydakis, Christos Papadimitriou, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Aristotelis Bamias, and Marianthi Tsitlaidou

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Oncology, Genetic Screens, Heredity, endocrine system diseases, Genes, BRCA2, Genes, BRCA1, medicine.disease_cause, Exon, Prevalence, Age of Onset, Family history, Child, skin and connective tissue diseases, Aged, 80 and over, Ovarian Neoplasms, Genetics, Mutation, Multidisciplinary, Greece, medicine.diagnostic_test, Age Factors, Exons, Middle Aged, Pedigree, Serous fluid, Phenotype, Autosomal Dominant, Medicine, Female, Research Article, Adult, Heterozygote, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Science, Biology, Young Adult, Germline mutation, Breast cancer, Genetic Mutation, Diagnostic Medicine, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Family, Genetic Testing, Aged, Genetic testing, Clinical Genetics, Human Genetics, medicine.disease, Genetics of Disease, Ovarian cancer, Population Genetics
Abstract

Germline mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes contribute to approximately 18% of hereditary ovarian cancers conferring an estimated lifetime risk from 15% to 50%. A variable incidence of mutations has been reported for these genes in ovarian cancer cases from different populations. In Greece, six mutations in BRCA1 account for 63% of all mutations detected in both BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of BRCA1 mutations in a Greek cohort of 106 familial ovarian cancer patients that had strong family history or metachronous breast cancer and 592 sporadic ovarian cancer cases. All 698 patients were screened for the six recurrent Greek mutations (including founder mutations c.5266dupC, p.G1738R and the three large deletions of exon 20, exons 23-24 and exon 24). In familial cases, the BRCA1 gene was consequently screened for exons 5, 11, 12, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. A deleterious BRCA1 mutation was found in 43/106 (40.6%) of familial cancer cases and in 27/592 (4.6%) of sporadic cases. The variant of unknown clinical significance p.V1833M was identified in 9/698 patients (1.3%). The majority of BRCA1 carriers (71.2%) presented a high-grade serous phenotype. Identifying a mutation in the BRCA1 gene among breast and/or ovarian cancer families is important, as it enables carriers to take preventive measures. All ovarian cancer patients with a serous phenotype should be considered for genetic testing. Further studies are warranted to determine the prevalence of mutations in the rest of the BRCA1 gene, in the BRCA2 gene, and other novel predisposing genes for breast and ovarian cancer.

Published
2013

7. Prevalence of BRCA1 Mutations in Familial and Sporadic Greek Ovarian Cancer Cases

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Florentia Fostira, George Pentheroudakis, George Fountzilas, Alexandra V. Stavropoulou, Gerassimos E. Voutsinas, Meletios A. Dimopoulos, Vassilis Karydakis, Thomas Makatsoris, Irene Konstantopoulou, Dimitrios Pectasides, Eleni Timotheadou, Olga Triantafyllidou, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Gerasimos Aravantinos, Maroulio Pertesi, Aristotelis Bamias, Marianthi Tsitlaidou, Christos Christodoulou, and G. Klouvas

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Knowledge society, Multidisciplinary, business.industry, Statement (logic), Science, Lifelong learning, Correction, European Social Fund, Public administration, Medicine, media_common.cataloged_instance, European union, business, media_common
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There was an error in the funding statement. The correct funding information is: This research has been co-financed by the European Union (European Social Fund – ESF) and Greek national funds through the Operational Program "Education and Lifelong Learning" of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) - Research Funding Program of the General Secretariat for Research & Technology: ARISTEIA. Investing in knowledge society through the European Social Fund.

Published
2013

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