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SUBMITTER: Encinas G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5976478 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Encinas Giselly G Sabelnykova Veronica Y VY de Lyra Eduardo Carneiro EC Hirata Katayama Maria Lucia ML Maistro Simone S de Vasconcellos Valle Pedro Wilson Mompean PWM de Lima Pereira Gláucia Fernanda GF Rodrigues Lívia Munhoz LM de Menezes Pacheco Serio Pedro Adolpho PA de Gouvêa Ana Carolina Ribeiro Chaves ACRC Geyer Felipe Correa FC Basso Ricardo Alves RA Pasini Fátima Solange FS Del Pilar Esteves Diz Maria M Brentani Maria Mitzi MM Guedes Sampaio Góes João Carlos JC Chammas Roger R Boutros Paul C PC Koike Folgueira Maria Aparecida Azevedo MAA
Oncotarget 20180427 32
Breast cancer arising in very young patients may be biologically distinct; however, these tumors have been less well studied. We characterized a group of very young patients (≤ 35 years) for BRCA germline mutation and for somatic mutations in luminal (<i>HER2</i> negative) breast cancer. Thirteen of 79 unselected very young patients were <i>BRCA</i>1/2 germline mutation carriers. Of the non-<i>BRCA</i> tumors, eight with luminal subtype (<i>HER2</i> negative) were submitted for whole exome seque ...[more]