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SUBMITTER: Moller P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2736994 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Møller Pål P Maehle Lovise L Clark Neal N Apold Jaran J
Hereditary cancer in clinical practice 20070615 2
Modifying factors might theoretically determine whether a BRCA1 mutation carrier contracts breast or ovarian cancer. If so, one would expect concordance for breast or ovarian cancer in affected sibships. We identified 64 pairs with cancers where one or both sisters were demonstrated to carry a BRCA1 mutation, and 116 additional constructed pairs in sibships with three or more affected sisters. We analysed concordance for breast and for ovarian cancer both in the complete series and in the 64 sis ...[more]