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Maxwell CA, Benítez J, Gómez-Baldó L, Osorio A, Bonifaci N, Fernández-Ramires R, Costes SV, Guinó E, Chen H, Evans GJR, Mohan P, Català I, Petit A, Aguilar H, Villanueva A, Aytes A, Serra-Musach J, Rennert G, Lejbkowicz F, Peterlongo P, Manoukian S, Peissel B, Ripamonti CB, Bonanni B, Viel A, Allavena A, Bernard L, Radice P, Friedman E, Kaufman B, Laitman Y, Dubrovsky M, Milgrom R, Jakubowska A, Cybulski C, Gorski B, Jaworska K, Durda K, Sukiennicki G, Lubiński J, Shugart YY, Domchek SM, Letrero R, Weber BL, Hogervorst FBL, Rookus MA, Collee JM, Devilee P, Ligtenberg MJ, van der Luijt RB, Aalfs CM, Waisfisz Q, Wijnen J, van Roozendaal CEP, Easton DF, Peock S, Cook M, Oliver C, Frost D, Harrington P, Evans DG, Lalloo F, Eeles R, Izatt L, Chu C, Eccles D, Douglas F, Brewer C, Nevanlinna H, Heikkinen T, Couch FJ, Lindor NM, Wang X, Godwin AK, Caligo MA, Lombardi G, Loman N, Karlsson P, Ehrencrona H, von Wachenfeldt A, Bjork Barkardottir R, Hamann U, Rashid MU, Lasa A, Caldés T, Andrés R, Schmitt M, Assmann V, Stevens K, Offit K, Curado J, Tilgner H, Guigó R, Aiza G, Brunet J, Castellsagué J, Martrat G, Urruticoechea A, Blanco I, Tihomirova L, Goldgar DE, Buys S, John EM, Miron A, Southey M, Daly MB, Schmutzler RK, Wappenschmidt B, Meindl A, Arnold N, Deissler H, Varon-Mateeva R, Sutter C, Niederacher D, Imyamitov E, Sinilnikova OM, Stoppa-Lyonne D, Mazoyer S, Verny-Pierre C, Castera L, de Pauw A, Bignon YJ, Uhrhammer N, Peyrat JP, Vennin P, Fert Ferrer S, Collonge-Rame MA, Mortemousque I, Spurdle AB, Beesley J, Chen X, Healey S, Barcellos-Hoff MH, Vidal M, Gruber SB, Lázaro C, Capellá G, McGuffog L, Nathanson KL, Antoniou AC, Chenevix-Trench G, Fleisch MC, Moreno V, Pujana MA. Interplay between BRCA1 and RHAMM regulates epithelial apicobasal polarization and may influence risk of breast cancer. PLoS Biol 2011; 9:e1001199. [PMID: 22110403 PMCID: PMC3217025 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2011] [Accepted: 10/10/2011] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Differentiated mammary epithelium shows apicobasal polarity, and loss of tissue organization is an early hallmark of breast carcinogenesis. In BRCA1 mutation carriers, accumulation of stem and progenitor cells in normal breast tissue and increased risk of developing tumors of basal-like type suggest that BRCA1 regulates stem/progenitor cell proliferation and differentiation. However, the function of BRCA1 in this process and its link to carcinogenesis remain unknown. Here we depict a molecular mechanism involving BRCA1 and RHAMM that regulates apicobasal polarity and, when perturbed, may increase risk of breast cancer. Starting from complementary genetic analyses across families and populations, we identified common genetic variation at the low-penetrance susceptibility HMMR locus (encoding for RHAMM) that modifies breast cancer risk among BRCA1, but probably not BRCA2, mutation carriers: n = 7,584, weighted hazard ratio ((w)HR) = 1.09 (95% CI 1.02-1.16), p(trend) = 0.017; and n = 3,965, (w)HR = 1.04 (95% CI 0.94-1.16), p(trend) = 0.43; respectively. Subsequently, studies of MCF10A apicobasal polarization revealed a central role for BRCA1 and RHAMM, together with AURKA and TPX2, in essential reorganization of microtubules. Mechanistically, reorganization is facilitated by BRCA1 and impaired by AURKA, which is regulated by negative feedback involving RHAMM and TPX2. Taken together, our data provide fundamental insight into apicobasal polarization through BRCA1 function, which may explain the expanded cell subsets and characteristic tumor type accompanying BRCA1 mutation, while also linking this process to sporadic breast cancer through perturbation of HMMR/RHAMM.
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Affiliation(s)
- Christopher A. Maxwell
- Translational Research Laboratory, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet, Catalonia, Spain
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- Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
- Biomedical Research Centre Network for Rare Diseases, Spain
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- Translational Research Laboratory, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet, Catalonia, Spain
- Biomedical Research Centre Network for Epidemiology and Public Health, Spain
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- Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
- Biomedical Research Centre Network for Rare Diseases, Spain
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- Translational Research Laboratory, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet, Catalonia, Spain
- Biomedical Research Centre Network for Epidemiology and Public Health, Spain
- Biomarkers and Susceptibility Unit, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet, Catalonia, Spain
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- Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
- Biomedical Research Centre Network for Rare Diseases, Spain
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- Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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- Biomedical Research Centre Network for Epidemiology and Public Health, Spain
- Biomarkers and Susceptibility Unit, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet, Catalonia, Spain
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- Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Pathology, University Hospital of Bellvitge, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Pathology, University Hospital of Bellvitge, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet, Catalonia, Spain
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- Translational Research Laboratory, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet, Catalonia, Spain
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- Translational Research Laboratory, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet, Catalonia, Spain
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- Translational Research Laboratory, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet, Catalonia, Spain
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- Translational Research Laboratory, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet, Catalonia, Spain
- Biomarkers and Susceptibility Unit, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet, Catalonia, Spain
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- CHS National Cancer Control Center, Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Carmel Medical Center and B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel
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- CHS National Cancer Control Center, Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Carmel Medical Center and B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel
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- Unit of Molecular Bases of Genetic Risk and Genetic Testing, Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, and IFOM Fondazione Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare, Milan, Italy
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- Unit of Medical Genetics, Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, Italy
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- Unit of Medical Genetics, Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, Italy
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- Unit of Molecular Bases of Genetic Risk and Genetic Testing, Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, and IFOM Fondazione Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare, Milan, Italy
- Unit of Medical Genetics, Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, Italy
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- Division of Cancer Prevention and Genetics, Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan, Italy
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- Division of Experimental Oncology 1, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, IRCCS, Aviano, Italy
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- Department of Genetics, Biology and Biochemistry, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Oncology, Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, and Consortium for Genomics Technology (Cogentech), Milan, Italy
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- Unit of Molecular Bases of Genetic Risk and Genetic Testing, Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, and IFOM Fondazione Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare, Milan, Italy
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- The Susanne Levy Gertner Oncogenetics Unit, Institute of Human Genetics, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel
- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
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- The Susanne Levy Gertner Oncogenetics Unit, Institute of Human Genetics, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- The Susanne Levy Gertner Oncogenetics Unit, Institute of Human Genetics, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- The Susanne Levy Gertner Oncogenetics Unit, Institute of Human Genetics, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- The Susanne Levy Gertner Oncogenetics Unit, Institute of Human Genetics, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- International Hereditary Cancer Centre, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- International Hereditary Cancer Centre, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- International Hereditary Cancer Centre, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- International Hereditary Cancer Centre, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- International Hereditary Cancer Centre, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- International Hereditary Cancer Centre, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- International Hereditary Cancer Centre, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Unit of Statistical Genetics, Division of Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Family Cancer Clinic, Department of Pathology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Rotterdam Family Cancer Clinic, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Molecular Genetics, Utrecht University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Center for Human and Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Group, the Netherlands
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Genetic Medicine, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Genetic Medicine, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- The Oncogenetics Team, The Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Clinical Genetics, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, St. James's Hospital, Leeds, United Kingdom
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- Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess Anne Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter, United Kingdom
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America
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- Section of Genetic Oncology, Department of Oncology, University of Pisa, and Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Section of Genetic Oncology, Department of Oncology, University of Pisa, and Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Oncology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Oncology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Swedish Breast Cancer Study, Sweden
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- Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany, and Department of Basic Sciences, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Genetic Service, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Division, Hospital Clínico de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Department of Internal Medicine III, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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- Center for Experimental Medicine, Institute of Tumor Biology, University Hospital Hamburg–Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Clinical Genetics Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Bioinformatics and Genomics Group, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Biomedical Research Park of Barcelona (PRBB), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Bioinformatics and Genomics Group, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Biomedical Research Park of Barcelona (PRBB), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Bioinformatics and Genomics Group, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Biomedical Research Park of Barcelona (PRBB), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Translational Research Laboratory, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet, Catalonia, Spain
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- Genetic Counseling and Hereditary Cancer Programme, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL and Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IdIBGi), Catalonia, Spain
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- Genetic Counseling and Hereditary Cancer Programme, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL and Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IdIBGi), Catalonia, Spain
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- Translational Research Laboratory, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet, Catalonia, Spain
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- Translational Research Laboratory, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet, Catalonia, Spain
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- Genetic Counseling and Hereditary Cancer Programme, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL and Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IdIBGi), Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Dermatology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
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- Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, California, United States of America
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic (MEGA) Epidemiology, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| | - Mary B. Daly
- Division of Population Science, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
| | - BCFR
- Breast Cancer Family Registry, United States of America
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- Center for Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer and Center of Integrated Oncology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Center for Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer and Center of Integrated Oncology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University, Munich, Germany
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- Division of Oncology, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Dieter Niederacher
- Division of Molecular Genetics, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Clinical Center University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- N. N. Petrov Institute of Oncology, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Unité Mixte de Génétique Constitutionnelle des Cancers Fréquents, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lyon, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France
- Equipe labellisée LIGUE 2008, UMR5201 CNRS, Centre Léon Bérard, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- INSERM U509, Service de Génétique Oncologique, Institut Curie, Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France
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- Equipe labellisée LIGUE 2008, UMR5201 CNRS, Centre Léon Bérard, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Equipe labellisée LIGUE 2008, UMR5201 CNRS, Centre Léon Bérard, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- INSERM U509, Service de Génétique Oncologique, Institut Curie, Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France
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- INSERM U509, Service de Génétique Oncologique, Institut Curie, Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France
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- Département d'Oncogénétique, Centre Jean Perrin, Université de Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Département d'Oncogénétique, Centre Jean Perrin, Université de Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Laboratoire d'Oncologie Moléculaire Humaine, Centre Oscar Lambret, Lille, France
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- Consultation d'Oncogénétique, Centre Oscar Lambret, Lille, France
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- Laboratoire de Génétique Chromosomique, Hôtel Dieu Centre Hospitalier, Chambéry, France
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- Service de Génétique-Histologie-Biologie du Développement et de la Reproduction, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besançon, Besançon, France
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- GEMO Study (Genetics Network “Groupe Génétique et Cancer”), Fédération Nationale des Centres de Lutte Contre le Cancer, France
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- Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
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- Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
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- The Kathleen Cuningham Foundation Consortium for Research into Familial Breast Cancer, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, East Melbourne, Australia
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- Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Epidemiology, Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Genetic Counseling and Hereditary Cancer Programme, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL and Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IdIBGi), Catalonia, Spain
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- Genetic Counseling and Hereditary Cancer Programme, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL and Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IdIBGi), Catalonia, Spain
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecologie, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany
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- Biomedical Research Centre Network for Epidemiology and Public Health, Spain
- Biomarkers and Susceptibility Unit, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet, Catalonia, Spain
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- Translational Research Laboratory, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet, Catalonia, Spain
- Biomedical Research Centre Network for Epidemiology and Public Health, Spain
- Biomarkers and Susceptibility Unit, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet, Catalonia, Spain
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