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SUBMITTER: Stadler ZK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3415553 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stadler Zsofia K ZK Esposito Diane D Shah Sohela S Vijai Joseph J Yamrom Boris B Levy Dan D Lee Yoon-Ha YH Kendall Jude J Leotta Anthony A Ronemus Michael M Hansen Nichole N Sarrel Kara K Rau-Murthy Rohini R Schrader Kasmintan K Kauff Noah N Klein Robert J RJ Lipkin Steven M SM Murali Rajmohan R Robson Mark M Sheinfeld Joel J Feldman Darren D Bosl George G Norton Larry L Wigler Michael M Offit Kenneth K
American journal of human genetics 20120802 2
Although heritable factors are an important determinant of risk of early-onset cancer, the majority of these malignancies appear to occur sporadically without identifiable risk factors. Germline de novo copy-number variations (CNVs) have been observed in sporadic neurocognitive and cardiovascular disorders. We explored this mechanism in 382 genomes of 116 early-onset cancer case-parent trios and unaffected siblings. Unique de novo germline CNVs were not observed in 107 breast or colon cancer tri ...[more]