Hereditary breast cancer: the era of new susceptibility genes

P Apostolou, F Fostira - BioMed research international, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among females. 5%–10% of breast cancer
cases are hereditary and are caused by pathogenic mutations in the considered reference …

Assessing women at high risk of breast cancer: a review of risk assessment models

E Amir, OC Freedman, B Seruga… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Women who are at high risk of breast cancer can be offered more intensive surveillance or
prophylactic measures, such as surgery or chemoprevention. Central to decisions regarding …

Genome-wide association analysis of more than 120,000 individuals identifies 15 new susceptibility loci for breast cancer

K Michailidou, J Beesley, S Lindstrom, S Canisius… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and large-scale replication studies have
identified common variants in 79 loci associated with breast cancer, explaining∼ 14% of the …

Identification of ten variants associated with risk of estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancer

RL Milne, KB Kuchenbaecker, K Michailidou… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Most common breast cancer susceptibility variants have been identified through genome-
wide association studies (GWAS) of predominantly estrogen receptor (ER)-positive disease …

Large-scale genoty** identifies 41 new loci associated with breast cancer risk

K Michailidou, P Hall, A Gonzalez-Neira… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. Common variants at 27 loci have
been identified as associated with susceptibility to breast cancer, and these account for∼ …

The landscape of long noncoding RNAs in the human transcriptome

MK Iyer, YS Niknafs, R Malik, U Singhal, A Sahu… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are emerging as important regulators of tissue physiology
and disease processes including cancer. To delineate genome-wide lncRNA expression …

Variance component model to account for sample structure in genome-wide association studies

HM Kang, JH Sul, SK Service, NA Zaitlen, S Kong… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Although genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified numerous loci
associated with complex traits, imprecise modeling of the genetic relatedness within study …

Identification of 23 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci using the iCOGS custom genoty** array

RA Eeles, AAA Olama, S Benlloch, EJ Saunders… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in males in developed countries. To
identify common prostate cancer susceptibility alleles, we genotyped 211,155 SNPs on a …

[HTML][HTML] BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations and treatment strategies for breast cancer

I Godet, DM Gilkes - Integrative cancer science and therapeutics, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Breast cancer is a global burden with a woman's lifetime risk of develo** breast cancer at
1 in 8. Although breast cancer is a disease that affects mostly women, the lifetime risk in men …

Germline mutations in breast and ovarian cancer pedigrees establish RAD51C as a human cancer susceptibility gene

A Meindl, H Hellebrand, C Wiek, V Erven… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Germline mutations in a number of genes involved in the recombinational repair of DNA
double-strand breaks are associated with predisposition to breast and ovarian cancer …