GENESIS: a French national resource to study the missing heritability of breast cancer.
Authors
Sinilnikova OM, Dondon MG, Eon-Marchais S, Damiola F, Barjhoux L, Marcou M, Verny-Pierre C, Sornin V, Toulemonde L, Beauvallet J, Le Gal D, Mebirouk N, Belotti M, Caron O, Gauthier-Villars M, Coupier I, Buecher B, Lortholary A, Dugast C, Gesta P, Fricker JP, Noguès C, Luporsi E, Berthet P, Delnatte C, Bonadona V, Maugard CM, Pujol P, Lasset C, Longy M, Bignon YJ, Adenis C, Venat-Bouvet L, Demange L, Dreyfus H, Frenay M, Gladieff L, Mortemousque I, Audebert-Bellanger S, Soubrier F, Giraud S, Lejeune-Dumoulin S, Limacher JM, Chiesa J, Fajac A, Floquet A, Eisinger F, Tinat J, Colas C, Fert-Ferrer S, Penet C, Frebourg T, Collonge-Rame MA, Barouk-Simonet E, Layet V, Leroux D, Cohen-Haguenauer O, Prieur F, Mouret-Fourme E, Cornélis F, Jonveaux P, Bera O, Cavaciuti E, Tardivon A, Lesueur F, Mazoyer S, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Andrieu N
Summary
Less than 20% of familial breast cancer patients who undergo genetic testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2 carry a pathogenic mutation in one of these two genes. The GENESIS (GENE SISter) study was designed to identify new breast cancer susceptibility genes in women attending cancer genetics clinics and with no BRCA1/2 mutation.
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