Clinical applications of polygenic breast cancer risk: a critical review and perspectives of an emerging field

T Yanes, MA Young, B Meiser, PA James - Breast Cancer Research, 2020 - Springer
Polygenic factors are estimated to account for an additional 18% of the familial relative risk
of breast cancer, with those at the highest level of polygenic risk distribution having a least a …

The emerging field of polygenic risk scores and perspective for use in clinical care

T Yanes, AM McInerney-Leo, MH Law… - Human molecular …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Genetic testing is used widely for diagnostic, carrier and predictive testing in monogenic
diseases. Until recently, there were no genetic testing options available for multifactorial …

Pathology of tumors associated with pathogenic germline variants in 9 breast cancer susceptibility genes

N Mavaddat, L Dorling, S Carvalho, J Allen… - JAMA …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Rare germline genetic variants in several genes are associated with increased
breast cancer (BC) risk, but their precise contributions to different disease subtypes are …

Molecular characteristics of breast tumors in patients screened for germline predisposition from a population-based observational study

DF Nacer, J Vallon-Christersson, N Nordborg… - Genome Medicine, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background Pathogenic germline variants (PGVs) in certain genes are linked to
higher lifetime risk of develo** breast cancer and can influence preventive surgery …

Associations of a breast cancer polygenic risk score with tumor characteristics and survival

JMN Lopes Cardozo, IL Andrulis… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE A polygenic risk score (PRS) consisting of 313 common genetic variants
(PRS313) is associated with risk of breast cancer and contralateral breast cancer. This study …

Leveraging genetic interactions for adverse drug-drug interaction prediction

S Qian, S Liang, H Yu - PLoS computational biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
In light of increased co-prescription of multiple drugs, the ability to discern and predict drug-
drug interactions (DDI) has become crucial to guarantee the safety of patients undergoing …

Interval breast cancer is associated with other types of tumors

F Grassmann, W He, M Eriksson, M Gabrielson… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Breast cancer (BC) patients diagnosed between two screenings (interval cancers) are more
likely than screen-detected patients to carry rare deleterious mutations in cancer genes …

Personalizing breast cancer screening based on polygenic risk and family history

JJ Van Den Broek, CB Schechter… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background We assessed the clinical utility of a first-degree breast cancer family history and
polygenic risk score (PRS) to inform screening decisions among women aged 30-50 years …

Higher polygenic risk for melanoma is associated with improved survival in a high ultraviolet radiation setting

M Seviiri, RA Scolyer, DT Bishop… - Journal of Translational …, 2022 - Springer
Background The role of germline genetic factors in determining survival from cutaneous
melanoma (CM) is not well understood. Objective To perform a genome-wide association …

Lymph node metastases in breast cancer: investigating associations with tumor characteristics, molecular subtypes and polygenic risk score using a continuous …

G Isheden, F Grassmann, K Czene… - … Journal of Cancer, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the association between rate of breast cancer lymph node spread and grade,
estrogen receptor (ER) status, progesteron receptor status, decision tree derived PAM50 …