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Zaric O, Farr A, Minarikova L, Lachner S, Asseryanis E, Nagel AM, Weber M, Singer CF, Trattnig S. Tissue Sodium Concentration Quantification at 7.0-T MRI as an Early Marker for Chemotherapy Response in Breast Cancer: A Feasibility Study. Radiology 2021; 299:63-72. [PMID: 33591888 DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2021201600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
Abstract
Background Tissue sodium concentration (TSC) is elevated in breast cancer and can determine chemotherapy response. Purpose To test the feasibility of using a sodium 23 (23Na) MRI protocol at 7.0 T for TSC quantification to predict early treatment outcomes of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer and to determine whether those quantitative values provide additional information about efficacy. Materials and Methods Women with primary breast cancer were included in this prospective study. From July 2017 to June 2018, participants underwent 7.0-T 23Na MRI. Multichannel data sets were acquired with a density-adapted, three-dimensional radial projection reconstruction pulse sequence. Two-dimensional tumor size and TSC were evaluated before and after the first and second chemotherapy cycle, and statistical tests were performed based on the presence or absence of a pathologic complete response (pCR). Results Fifteen women with breast cancer and six healthy women were enrolled. The mean baseline tumor size in women with a pCR was 7.0 cm2 ± 5.0 (standard deviation), and the mean baseline tumor size in women without a pCR was 19.0 cm2 ± 12.0. After the first chemotherapy cycle, women with a pCR showed a reduced tumor size of 32.9% (2.3 cm2/7.0 cm2), compared with 15.3% (2.9 cm2/19.0 cm2) in those without a pCR. The areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve for tumor size reduction after the first and second chemotherapy cycle were 0.73 (95% CI: 0.09, 0.50; P = .12) and 0.93 (95% CI: 0.04, 0.60; P < .001), respectively. Women with a pCR had a mean baseline TSC of 69.4 mmol/L ± 6.1, with a reduction of 12.0% (8.3 mmol/L), whereas those without a pCR had a mean baseline TSC of 71.7 mmol/L ± 5.7, with a reduction of 4.7% (3.4 mmol/L) after the first cycle. The areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve for TSC after the first and second cycles were 0.96 (95% CI: 0.86, 1.00; P < .001) and 1.000 (95% CI: 1.00, P < .001), respectively. Conclusion Using 7.0-T MRI for tissue sodium concentration quantification to predict early treatment outcomes of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer is feasible, with reduced tissue sodium concentration indicative of cancer response. © RSNA, 2021 Online supplemental material is available for this article.
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- Olgica Zaric
- From the Institute for Clinical Molecular MRI in Musculoskeletal System, Karl Landsteiner Society, Vienna, Austria (O.Z., S.T.); Breast Health Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (A.F., E.A., C.F.S.), and High Field MR Center, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy (L.M., M.W., S.T.), Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria; Institute of Radiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany (S.L., A.M.N.); and Christian Doppler Laboratory for Clinical Molecular MRI, Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft, Vienna, Austria (S.T.)
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- From the Institute for Clinical Molecular MRI in Musculoskeletal System, Karl Landsteiner Society, Vienna, Austria (O.Z., S.T.); Breast Health Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (A.F., E.A., C.F.S.), and High Field MR Center, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy (L.M., M.W., S.T.), Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria; Institute of Radiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany (S.L., A.M.N.); and Christian Doppler Laboratory for Clinical Molecular MRI, Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft, Vienna, Austria (S.T.)
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- From the Institute for Clinical Molecular MRI in Musculoskeletal System, Karl Landsteiner Society, Vienna, Austria (O.Z., S.T.); Breast Health Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (A.F., E.A., C.F.S.), and High Field MR Center, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy (L.M., M.W., S.T.), Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria; Institute of Radiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany (S.L., A.M.N.); and Christian Doppler Laboratory for Clinical Molecular MRI, Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft, Vienna, Austria (S.T.)
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- From the Institute for Clinical Molecular MRI in Musculoskeletal System, Karl Landsteiner Society, Vienna, Austria (O.Z., S.T.); Breast Health Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (A.F., E.A., C.F.S.), and High Field MR Center, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy (L.M., M.W., S.T.), Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria; Institute of Radiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany (S.L., A.M.N.); and Christian Doppler Laboratory for Clinical Molecular MRI, Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft, Vienna, Austria (S.T.)
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- From the Institute for Clinical Molecular MRI in Musculoskeletal System, Karl Landsteiner Society, Vienna, Austria (O.Z., S.T.); Breast Health Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (A.F., E.A., C.F.S.), and High Field MR Center, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy (L.M., M.W., S.T.), Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria; Institute of Radiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany (S.L., A.M.N.); and Christian Doppler Laboratory for Clinical Molecular MRI, Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft, Vienna, Austria (S.T.)
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- From the Institute for Clinical Molecular MRI in Musculoskeletal System, Karl Landsteiner Society, Vienna, Austria (O.Z., S.T.); Breast Health Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (A.F., E.A., C.F.S.), and High Field MR Center, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy (L.M., M.W., S.T.), Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria; Institute of Radiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany (S.L., A.M.N.); and Christian Doppler Laboratory for Clinical Molecular MRI, Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft, Vienna, Austria (S.T.)
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- From the Institute for Clinical Molecular MRI in Musculoskeletal System, Karl Landsteiner Society, Vienna, Austria (O.Z., S.T.); Breast Health Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (A.F., E.A., C.F.S.), and High Field MR Center, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy (L.M., M.W., S.T.), Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria; Institute of Radiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany (S.L., A.M.N.); and Christian Doppler Laboratory for Clinical Molecular MRI, Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft, Vienna, Austria (S.T.)
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- From the Institute for Clinical Molecular MRI in Musculoskeletal System, Karl Landsteiner Society, Vienna, Austria (O.Z., S.T.); Breast Health Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (A.F., E.A., C.F.S.), and High Field MR Center, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy (L.M., M.W., S.T.), Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria; Institute of Radiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany (S.L., A.M.N.); and Christian Doppler Laboratory for Clinical Molecular MRI, Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft, Vienna, Austria (S.T.)
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- From the Institute for Clinical Molecular MRI in Musculoskeletal System, Karl Landsteiner Society, Vienna, Austria (O.Z., S.T.); Breast Health Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (A.F., E.A., C.F.S.), and High Field MR Center, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy (L.M., M.W., S.T.), Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria; Institute of Radiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany (S.L., A.M.N.); and Christian Doppler Laboratory for Clinical Molecular MRI, Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft, Vienna, Austria (S.T.)
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Feng H, Gusev A, Pasaniuc B, Wu L, Long J, Abu-full Z, Aittomäki K, Andrulis IL, Anton-Culver H, Antoniou AC, Arason A, Arndt V, Aronson KJ, Arun BK, Asseryanis E, Auer PL, Azzollini J, Balmaña J, Barkardottir RB, Barnes DR, Barrowdale D, Beckmann MW, Behrens S, Benitez J, Bermisheva M, Białkowska K, Blanco A, Blomqvist C, Boeckx B, Bogdanova NV, Bojesen SE, Bolla MK, Bonanni B, Borg A, Brauch H, Brenner H, Briceno I, Broeks A, Brüning T, Burwinkel B, Cai Q, Caldés T, Caligo MA, Campbell I, Canisius S, Campa D, Carter BD, Carter J, Castelao JE, Chang-Claude J, Chanock SJ, Christiansen H, Chung WK, Claes KBM, Clarke CL, Couch FJ, Cox A, Cross SS, Cybulski C, Czene K, Daly MB, de la Hoya M, De Leeneer K, Dennis J, Devilee P, Diez O, Domchek SM, Dörk T, dos-Santos-Silva I, Dunning AM, Dwek M, Eccles DM, Ejlertsen B, Ellberg C, Engel C, Eriksson M, Fasching PA, Fletcher O, Flyger H, Fostira F, Friedman E, Fritschi L, Frost D, Gabrielson M, Ganz PA, Gapstur SM, Garber J, García-Closas M, García-Sáenz JA, Gaudet MM, Giles GG, Glendon G, Godwin AK, Goldberg MS, Goldgar DE, González-Neira A, Greene MH, Gronwald J, Guénel P, Haiman CA, Hall P, Hamann U, Hake C, He W, Heyworth J, Hogervorst FB, Hollestelle A, Hooning MJ, Hoover RN, Hopper JL, Huang G, Hulick PJ, Humphreys K, Imyanitov EN, Isaacs C, Jakimovska M, Jakubowska A, James P, Janavicius R, Jankowitz RC, John EM, Johnson N, Joseph V, Jung A, Karlan BY, Khusnutdinova E, Kiiski JI, Konstantopoulou I, Kristensen VN, Laitman Y, Lambrechts D, Lazaro C, Leroux D, Leslie G, Lester J, Lesueur F, Lindor N, Lindström S, Lo WY, Loud JT, Lubiński J, Makalic E, Mannermaa A, Manoochehri M, Manoukian S, Margolin S, Martens JW, Martinez ME, Matricardi L, Maurer T, Mavroudis D, McGuffog L, Meindl A, Menon U, Michailidou K, Kapoor PM, Miller A, Montagna M, Moreno F, Moserle L, Mulligan AM, Muranen TA, Nathanson KL, Neuhausen SL, Nevanlinna H, Nevelsteen I, Nielsen FC, Nikitina-Zake L, Offit K, Olah E, Olopade OI, Olsson H, Osorio A, Papp J, Park-Simon TW, Parsons MT, Pedersen IS, Peixoto A, Peterlongo P, Peto J, Pharoah PD, Phillips KA, Plaseska-Karanfilska D, Poppe B, Pradhan N, Prajzendanc K, Presneau N, Punie K, Pylkäs K, Radice P, Rantala J, Rashid MU, Rennert G, Risch HA, Robson M, Romero A, Saloustros E, Sandler DP, Santos C, Sawyer EJ, Schmidt MK, Schmidt DF, Schmutzler RK, Schoemaker MJ, Scott RJ, Sharma P, Shu XO, Simard J, Singer CF, Skytte AB, Soucy P, Southey MC, Spinelli JJ, Spurdle AB, Stone J, Swerdlow AJ, Tapper WJ, Taylor JA, Teixeira MR, Terry MB, Teulé A, Thomassen M, Thöne K, Thull DL, Tischkowitz M, Toland AE, Tollenaar RAEM, Torres D, Truong T, Tung N, Vachon CM, van Asperen CJ, van den Ouweland AMW, van Rensburg EJ, Vega A, Viel A, Vieiro-Balo P, Wang Q, Wappenschmidt B, Weinberg CR, Weitzel JN, Wendt C, Winqvist R, Yang XR, Yannoukakos D, Ziogas A, Milne RL, Easton DF, Chenevix-Trench G, Zheng W, Kraft P, Jiang X. Transcriptome-wide association study of breast cancer risk by estrogen-receptor status. Genet Epidemiol 2020; 44:442-468. [PMID: 32115800 PMCID: PMC7987299 DOI: 10.1002/gepi.22288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2019] [Revised: 01/13/2020] [Accepted: 02/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
Previous transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) have identified breast cancer risk genes by integrating data from expression quantitative loci and genome-wide association studies (GWAS), but analyses of breast cancer subtype-specific associations have been limited. In this study, we conducted a TWAS using gene expression data from GTEx and summary statistics from the hitherto largest GWAS meta-analysis conducted for breast cancer overall, and by estrogen receptor subtypes (ER+ and ER-). We further compared associations with ER+ and ER- subtypes, using a case-only TWAS approach. We also conducted multigene conditional analyses in regions with multiple TWAS associations. Two genes, STXBP4 and HIST2H2BA, were specifically associated with ER+ but not with ER- breast cancer. We further identified 30 TWAS-significant genes associated with overall breast cancer risk, including four that were not identified in previous studies. Conditional analyses identified single independent breast-cancer gene in three of six regions harboring multiple TWAS-significant genes. Our study provides new information on breast cancer genetics and biology, particularly about genomic differences between ER+ and ER- breast cancer.
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- Helian Feng
- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Fred A, Litwin Center for Cancer Genetics, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Pathology, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland
- BMC (Biomedical Centre), Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, and Cancer Research Institute, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Breast Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of OB/GYN and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Cancer Prevention Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
- Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Unit of Medical Genetics, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- High Risk and Cancer Prevention Group, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Pathology, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland
- BMC (Biomedical Centre), Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Comprehensive Cancer Center ER-EMN, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Centro de Investigaci—n en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain
- Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Centro de Investigaci—n en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain
- Fundaci—n Pœblica Galega Medicina Xen—mica, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
- Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Department of Oncology, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Oncology, University Hospital, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- VIB Center for Cancer Biology, VIB, Leuven, Belgium
- Laboratory for Translational Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- NN Alexandrov Research Institute of Oncology and Medical Radiology, Minsk, Belarus
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- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Division of Cancer Prevention and Genetics, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Oncology, Lund University and Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
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- Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany
- iFIT-Cluster of Excellence, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia
- Medical Faculty, Universidad de La Sabana, Bogota, Colombia
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute—Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum (IPA), Bochum, Germany
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- Molecular Epidemiology Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Molecular Biology of Breast Cancer, University Womens Clinic Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Cl’nico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigaci—n Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
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- Section of Molecular Genetics, Dept, of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Research Department, Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute—Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Division of Molecular Carcinogenesis, The Netherlands Cancer Institute—Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Genomic Epidemiology Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Behavioral and Epidemiology Research Group, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Chris OÕBrien Lifehouse and The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia
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- Oncology and Genetics Unit, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria Galicia Sur (IISGS), Xerencia de Xestion Integrada de Vigo-SERGAS, Vigo, Spain
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Cancer Epidemiology Group, University Cancer Center Hamburg (UCCH), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Westmead Institute for Medical Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Tumour Biology, INSERM U830, Paris, France
- Institut Curie, Paris, France
- Mines ParisTech, Fontainebleau, France
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Center for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Oncology and Metabolism, Sheffield Institute for Nucleic Acids (SInFoNiA), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Academic Unit of Pathology, Department of Neuroscience, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Cl’nico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigaci—n Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
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- Centre for Medical Genetics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Hereditary Cancer Genetics Group, Area of Clinical and Molecular Genetics, Vall dHebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), University Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
- Clinical and Molecular Genetics Area, University Hospital Vall dHebron, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Medicine, Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Westminster, London, UK
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- Cancer Sciences Academic Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Department of Oncology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- LIFE - Leipzig Research Centre for Civilization Diseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Comprehensive Cancer Center ER-EMN, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
- David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Medicine Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- The Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Department of Breast Surgery, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
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- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, INRASTES, National Centre for Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’, Athens, Greece
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- The Susanne Levy Gertner Oncogenetics Unit, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel
- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
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- School of Public Health, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Division of Cancer Prevention & Control Research, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Centre, UCLA, Los Angeles, California
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- Behavioral and Epidemiology Research Group, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Cancer Risk and Prevention Clinic, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Cl’nico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigaci—n Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
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- Behavioral and Epidemiology Research Group, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| | - Gord Glendon
- Fred A, Litwin Center for Cancer Genetics, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Andrew K. Godwin
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kanas
| | - Mark S. Goldberg
- Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
| | - David E. Goldgar
- Department of Dermatology, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
| | - Anna González-Neira
- Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
| | - Mark H. Greene
- Clinical Genetics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
| | - Jacek Gronwald
- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Pascal Guénel
- Cancer & Environment Group, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), INSERM, University Paris-Sud, University Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
| | - Christopher A. Haiman
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
| | - Per Hall
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Oncology, Sšdersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Ute Hamann
- Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Christopher Hake
- City of Hope Clinical Cancer Genetics Community Research Network, Duarte, California
| | - Wei He
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Jane Heyworth
- School of Population and Global Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
| | - Frans B.L. Hogervorst
- Family Cancer Clinic, The Netherlands Cancer Institute—Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Antoinette Hollestelle
- Department of Medical Oncology, Family Cancer Clinic, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Maartje J. Hooning
- Department of Medical Oncology, Family Cancer Clinic, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Robert N. Hoover
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
| | - John L. Hopper
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| | - Guanmengqian Huang
- Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Peter J. Hulick
- Center for Medical Genetics, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois
- The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
| | - Keith Humphreys
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | | | - ABCTB Investigators
- Australian Breast Cancer Tissue Bank, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
| | - HEBON Investigators
- The Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Research Group Netherlands (HEBON), Coordinating Center, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - BCFR Investigators
- Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
| | - OCGN Investigators
- Ontario Cancer Genetics Network, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Claudine Isaacs
- Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia
| | - Milena Jakimovska
- Research Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology ‘Georgi D, Efremov’, Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Skopje Republic of North Macedonia, North Macedonia
| | - Anna Jakubowska
- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
- Independent Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Genetic Diagnostics, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Paul James
- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Parkville Familial Cancer Centre, Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| | | | - Rachel C. Jankowitz
- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
| | - Esther M. John
- Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
| | - Nichola Johnson
- The Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
| | - Vijai Joseph
- Clinical Genetics Research Lab, Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
| | - Audrey Jung
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Beth Y. Karlan
- David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California, Los Angeles, California
| | - Elza Khusnutdinova
- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia
- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State Medical University, Ufa, Russia
| | - Johanna I. Kiiski
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Irene Konstantopoulou
- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, INRASTES, National Centre for Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’, Athens, Greece
| | - Vessela N. Kristensen
- Department of Cancer Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital-Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - Yael Laitman
- The Susanne Levy Gertner Oncogenetics Unit, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel
| | - Diether Lambrechts
- VIB Center for Cancer Biology, VIB, Leuven, Belgium
- Laboratory for Translational Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
| | - Conxi Lazaro
- Molecular Diagnostic Unit, Hereditary Cancer Program, ICO-IDIBELL (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, Catalan Institute of Oncology), CIBERONC, Barcelona, Spain
| | | | - Goska Leslie
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Jenny Lester
- David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California, Los Angeles, California
| | - Fabienne Lesueur
- Institut Curie, Paris, France
- Mines ParisTech, Fontainebleau, France
- Genetic Epidemiology of Cancer Team, Inserm U900, Paris, France
| | - Noralane Lindor
- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona
| | - Sara Lindström
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
| | - Wing-Yee Lo
- Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany
- iFIT-Cluster of Excellence, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
| | - Jennifer T. Loud
- Clinical Genetics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
| | - Jan Lubiński
- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Enes Makalic
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| | - Arto Mannermaa
- Translational Cancer Research Area, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Imaging Center, Department of Clinical Pathology, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Mehdi Manoochehri
- Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Siranoush Manoukian
- Unit of Medical Genetics, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Milan, Italy
| | - Sara Margolin
- Department of Oncology, Sšdersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Sšdersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - John W.M. Martens
- Department of Medical Oncology, Family Cancer Clinic, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Maria E. Martinez
- Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California
- Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California
| | - Laura Matricardi
- Immunology and Molecular Oncology Unit, Veneto Institute of Oncology ÊIOV—IRCCS, Padua, Italy
| | - Tabea Maurer
- Cancer Epidemiology Group, University Cancer Center Hamburg (UCCH), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
| | - Dimitrios Mavroudis
- Department of Medical Oncology, University Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Greece
| | - Lesley McGuffog
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Alfons Meindl
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany
| | - Usha Menon
- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Institute of Clinical Trials & Methodology, University College London, London, UK
| | - Kyriaki Michailidou
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Electron Microscopy/Molecular Pathology and The Cyprus School of Molecular Medicine, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology & Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus
| | - Pooja M. Kapoor
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Austin Miller
- NRG Oncology, Statistics and Data Management Center, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York
| | - Marco Montagna
- Immunology and Molecular Oncology Unit, Veneto Institute of Oncology ÊIOV—IRCCS, Padua, Italy
| | - Fernando Moreno
- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Cl’nico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigaci—n Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
| | - Lidia Moserle
- Immunology and Molecular Oncology Unit, Veneto Institute of Oncology ÊIOV—IRCCS, Padua, Italy
| | - Anna M. Mulligan
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Laboratory Medicine Program, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Taru A. Muranen
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Katherine L. Nathanson
- Department of Medicine, Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
| | - Susan L. Neuhausen
- Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, California
| | - Heli Nevanlinna
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Ines Nevelsteen
- Leuven Multidisciplinary Breast Center, Department of Oncology, Leuven Cancer Institute, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
| | - Finn C. Nielsen
- Center for Genomic Medicine, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | | | - Kenneth Offit
- Clinical Genetics Research Lab, Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
- Clinical Genetics Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
| | - Edith Olah
- Department of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary
| | | | - Håkan Olsson
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
| | - Ana Osorio
- Centro de Investigaci—n en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain
- Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
| | - Janos Papp
- Department of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary
| | | | - Michael T. Parsons
- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
| | - Inge S. Pedersen
- Section of Molecular Diagnostics, Clinical Biochemistry, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
| | - Ana Peixoto
- Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute, Porto, Portugal
| | - Paolo Peterlongo
- Genome Diagnostics Program, IFOM—The FIRC (Italian Foundation for Cancer Research) Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
| | - Julian Peto
- Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
| | - Paul D.P. Pharoah
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Kelly-Anne Phillips
- Research Department, Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Medicine Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| | - Dijana Plaseska-Karanfilska
- Research Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology ‘Georgi D, Efremov’, Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Skopje Republic of North Macedonia, North Macedonia
| | - Bruce Poppe
- Centre for Medical Genetics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
| | - Nisha Pradhan
- Clinical Genetics Research Lab, Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
| | - Karolina Prajzendanc
- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Nadege Presneau
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Westminster, London, UK
| | - Kevin Punie
- Leuven Multidisciplinary Breast Center, Department of Oncology, Leuven Cancer Institute, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
| | - Katri Pylkäs
- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Cancer and Translational Medicine Research Unit, Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Northern Finland Laboratory Centre Oulu, Oulu, Finland
| | - Paolo Radice
- Unit of Molecular Bases of Genetic Risk and Genetic Testing, Department of Research, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (INT), Milan, Italy
| | | | - Muhammad Usman Rashid
- Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Basic Sciences, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (SKMCH & RC), Lahore, Pakistan
| | - Gad Rennert
- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
| | - Harvey A Risch
- Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut
| | - Mark Robson
- Clinical Genetics Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
| | - Atocha Romero
- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, Spain
| | | | - Dale P. Sandler
- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
| | - Catarina Santos
- Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute, Porto, Portugal
| | - Elinor J. Sawyer
- Research Oncology, GuyÕs Hospital, King’s College London, London, UK
| | - Marjanka K. Schmidt
- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute—Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute—Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Daniel F. Schmidt
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| | - Rita K. Schmutzler
- Center for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
| | | | - Rodney J Scott
- Division of Molecular Medicine, Pathology North, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
- Discipline of Medical Genetics, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia
- Hunter Medical Research Institute, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
| | - Priyanka Sharma
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Westwood, Kanas
| | - Xiao-Ou Shu
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
| | - Jacques Simard
- Genomics Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Quebec–Universite Laval, Research Center, Quebec City, Qubec, Canada
| | - Christian F. Singer
- Department of OB/GYN and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
| | - Anne-Bine Skytte
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus N, Denmark
| | - Penny Soucy
- Genomics Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Quebec–Universite Laval, Research Center, Quebec City, Qubec, Canada
| | - Melissa C. Southey
- Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Clinical Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| | - John J. Spinelli
- Population Oncology, BC Cancer, Vancouver, British of Columbia, Canada
- School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British of Columbia, Canada
| | - Amanda B. Spurdle
- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
| | - Jennifer Stone
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- The Curtin UWA Centre for Genetic Origins of Health and Disease, Curtin University and University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
| | - Anthony J. Swerdlow
- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
- Division of Breast Cancer Research, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
| | | | - Jack A. Taylor
- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
- Epigenetic and Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
| | - Manuel R. Teixeira
- Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute, Porto, Portugal
- Biomedical Sciences Institute (ICBAS), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
| | - Mary Beth Terry
- Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York
| | - Alex Teulé
- Genetic Counseling Unit, Hereditary Cancer Program, IDIBELL (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute), Catalan Institute of Oncology, CIBERONC, Barcelona, Spain
| | - Mads Thomassen
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Odense University Hospital, Odence C, Denmark
| | - Kathrin Thöne
- Cancer Epidemiology Group, University Cancer Center Hamburg (UCCH), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
| | - Darcy L. Thull
- Department of Medicine, Magee-Womens Hospital, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
| | - Marc Tischkowitz
- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Human Genetics and Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Amanda E. Toland
- Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
| | | | - Diana Torres
- Institute of Human Genetics, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia
- Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Thérèse Truong
- Cancer & Environment Group, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), INSERM, University Paris-Sud, University Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
| | - Nadine Tung
- Department of Medical Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Celine M. Vachon
- Department of Health Science Research, Division of Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
| | - Christi J. van Asperen
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | | | | | - Ana Vega
- Centro de Investigaci—n en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain
- Fundaci—n Pœblica Galega Medicina Xen—mica, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
- Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
| | - Alessandra Viel
- Division of Functional Onco-genomics and Genetics, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO), IRCCS, Aviano, Italy
| | - Paula Vieiro-Balo
- Hospital Clínico Universitario (SERGAS), Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, CIMUS, Santiago de Compostela, España
| | - Qin Wang
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Barbara Wappenschmidt
- Center for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
| | - Clarice R. Weinberg
- Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
| | | | - Camilla Wendt
- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Sšdersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Robert Winqvist
- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Cancer and Translational Medicine Research Unit, Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Northern Finland Laboratory Centre Oulu, Oulu, Finland
| | - Xiaohong R. Yang
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
| | - Drakoulis Yannoukakos
- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, INRASTES, National Centre for Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’, Athens, Greece
| | - Argyrios Ziogas
- Department of Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California
| | - Roger L. Milne
- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
| | - Douglas F. Easton
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Georgia Chenevix-Trench
- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
| | - Wei Zheng
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
| | - Peter Kraft
- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Xia Jiang
- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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Figlioli G, Bogliolo M, Catucci I, Caleca L, Lasheras SV, Pujol R, Kiiski JI, Muranen TA, Barnes DR, Dennis J, Michailidou K, Bolla MK, Leslie G, Aalfs CM, Adank MA, Adlard J, Agata S, Cadoo K, Agnarsson BA, Ahearn T, Aittomäki K, Ambrosone CB, Andrews L, Anton-Culver H, Antonenkova NN, Arndt V, Arnold N, Aronson KJ, Arun BK, Asseryanis E, Auber B, Auvinen P, Azzollini J, Balmaña J, Barkardottir RB, Barrowdale D, Barwell J, Beane Freeman LE, Beauparlant CJ, Beckmann MW, Behrens S, Benitez J, Berger R, Bermisheva M, Blanco AM, Blomqvist C, Bogdanova NV, Bojesen A, Bojesen SE, Bonanni B, Borg A, Brady AF, Brauch H, Brenner H, Brüning T, Burwinkel B, Buys SS, Caldés T, Caliebe A, Caligo MA, Campa D, Campbell IG, Canzian F, Castelao JE, Chang-Claude J, Chanock SJ, Claes KBM, Clarke CL, Collavoli A, Conner TA, Cox DG, Cybulski C, Czene K, Daly MB, de la Hoya M, Devilee P, Diez O, Ding YC, Dite GS, Ditsch N, Domchek SM, Dorfling CM, dos-Santos-Silva I, Durda K, Dwek M, Eccles DM, Ekici AB, Eliassen AH, Ellberg C, Eriksson M, Evans DG, Fasching PA, Figueroa J, Flyger H, Foulkes WD, Friebel TM, Friedman E, Gabrielson M, Gaddam P, Gago-Dominguez M, Gao C, Gapstur SM, Garber J, García-Closas M, García-Sáenz JA, Gaudet MM, Gayther SA, Giles GG, Glendon G, Godwin AK, Goldberg MS, Goldgar DE, Guénel P, Gutierrez-Barrera AM, Haeberle L, Haiman CA, Håkansson N, Hall P, Hamann U, Harrington PA, Hein A, Heyworth J, Hillemanns P, Hollestelle A, Hopper JL, Hosgood HD, Howell A, Hu C, Hulick PJ, Hunter DJ, Imyanitov EN, Isaacs C, Jakimovska M, Jakubowska A, James P, Janavicius R, Janni W, John EM, Jones ME, Jung A, Kaaks R, Karlan BY, Khusnutdinova E, Kitahara CM, Konstantopoulou I, Koutros S, Kraft P, Lambrechts D, Lazaro C, Le Marchand L, Lester J, Lesueur F, Lilyquist J, Loud JT, Lu KH, Luben RN, Lubinski J, Mannermaa A, Manoochehri M, Manoukian S, Margolin S, Martens JWM, Maurer T, Mavroudis D, Mebirouk N, Meindl A, Menon U, Miller A, Montagna M, Nathanson KL, Neuhausen SL, Newman WG, Nguyen-Dumont T, Nielsen FC, Nielsen S, Nikitina-Zake L, Offit K, Olah E, Olopade OI, Olshan AF, Olson JE, Olsson H, Osorio A, Ottini L, Peissel B, Peixoto A, Peto J, Plaseska-Karanfilska D, Pocza T, Presneau N, Pujana MA, Punie K, Rack B, Rantala J, Rashid MU, Rau-Murthy R, Rennert G, Lejbkowicz F, Rhenius V, Romero A, Rookus MA, Ross EA, Rossing M, Rudaitis V, Ruebner M, Saloustros E, Sanden K, Santamariña M, Scheuner MT, Schmutzler RK, Schneider M, Scott C, Senter L, Shah M, Sharma P, Shu XO, Simard J, Singer CF, Sohn C, Soucy P, Southey MC, Spinelli JJ, Steele L, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Tapper WJ, Teixeira MR, Terry MB, Thomassen M, Thompson J, Thull DL, Tischkowitz M, Tollenaar RA, Torres D, Troester MA, Truong T, Tung N, Untch M, Vachon CM, van Rensburg EJ, van Veen EM, Vega A, Viel A, Wappenschmidt B, Weitzel JN, Wendt C, Wieme G, Wolk A, Yang XR, Zheng W, Ziogas A, Zorn KK, Dunning AM, Lush M, Wang Q, McGuffog L, Parsons MT, Pharoah PDP, Fostira F, Toland AE, Andrulis IL, Ramus SJ, Swerdlow AJ, Greene MH, Chung WK, Milne RL, Chenevix-Trench G, Dörk T, Schmidt MK, Easton DF, Radice P, Hahnen E, Antoniou AC, Couch FJ, Nevanlinna H, Surrallés J, Peterlongo P. The FANCM:p.Arg658* truncating variant is associated with risk of triple-negative breast cancer. NPJ Breast Cancer 2019; 5:38. [PMID: 31700994 PMCID: PMC6825205 DOI: 10.1038/s41523-019-0127-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2019] [Accepted: 08/30/2019] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
Abstract
Breast cancer is a common disease partially caused by genetic risk factors. Germline pathogenic variants in DNA repair genes BRCA1, BRCA2, PALB2, ATM, and CHEK2 are associated with breast cancer risk. FANCM, which encodes for a DNA translocase, has been proposed as a breast cancer predisposition gene, with greater effects for the ER-negative and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) subtypes. We tested the three recurrent protein-truncating variants FANCM:p.Arg658*, p.Gln1701*, and p.Arg1931* for association with breast cancer risk in 67,112 cases, 53,766 controls, and 26,662 carriers of pathogenic variants of BRCA1 or BRCA2. These three variants were also studied functionally by measuring survival and chromosome fragility in FANCM -/- patient-derived immortalized fibroblasts treated with diepoxybutane or olaparib. We observed that FANCM:p.Arg658* was associated with increased risk of ER-negative disease and TNBC (OR = 2.44, P = 0.034 and OR = 3.79; P = 0.009, respectively). In a country-restricted analysis, we confirmed the associations detected for FANCM:p.Arg658* and found that also FANCM:p.Arg1931* was associated with ER-negative breast cancer risk (OR = 1.96; P = 0.006). The functional results indicated that all three variants were deleterious affecting cell survival and chromosome stability with FANCM:p.Arg658* causing more severe phenotypes. In conclusion, we confirmed that the two rare FANCM deleterious variants p.Arg658* and p.Arg1931* are risk factors for ER-negative and TNBC subtypes. Overall our data suggest that the effect of truncating variants on breast cancer risk may depend on their position in the gene. Cell sensitivity to olaparib exposure, identifies a possible therapeutic option to treat FANCM-associated tumors.
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Affiliation(s)
- Gisella Figlioli
- IFOM - the FIRC Institute for Molecular Oncology, Genome Diagnostics Program, Milan, Italy
| | - Massimo Bogliolo
- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona Spain
- Center for Biomedical Network Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain
- Institute of Biomedical Research, Sant Pau Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
| | - Irene Catucci
- IFOM - the FIRC Institute for Molecular Oncology, Genome Diagnostics Program, Milan, Italy
| | - Laura Caleca
- Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Unit of Molecular Bases of Genetic Risk and Genetic Testing, Department of Research, Milan, Italy
| | - Sandra Viz Lasheras
- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona Spain
| | - Roser Pujol
- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona Spain
- Center for Biomedical Network Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain
- Institute of Biomedical Research, Sant Pau Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
| | - Johanna I. Kiiski
- University of Helsinki, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Taru A. Muranen
- University of Helsinki, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Daniel R. Barnes
- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge, UK
| | - Joe Dennis
- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge, UK
| | - Kyriaki Michailidou
- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge, UK
- The Cyprus Institute of Neurology & Genetics, Department of Electron Microscopy/Molecular Pathology and The Cyprus School of Molecular Medicine, Nicosia, Cyprus
| | - Manjeet K. Bolla
- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge, UK
| | - Goska Leslie
- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge, UK
| | - Cora M. Aalfs
- Amsterdam UMC, lokatie AMC, Department of Clinical Genetics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Muriel A. Adank
- The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital, Family Cancer Clinic, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Julian Adlard
- Chapel Allerton Hospital, Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds, UK
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- Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV - IRCCS, Immunology and Molecular Oncology Unit, Padua, Italy
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- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, New York, NY USA
| | - Bjarni A. Agnarsson
- Landspitali University Hospital, Department of Pathology, Reykjavik, Iceland
- University of Iceland, School of Medicine, Reykjavik, Iceland
| | - Thomas Ahearn
- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Bethesda, MD USA
| | - Kristiina Aittomäki
- University of Helsinki, Department of Clinical Genetics, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Care Centre, The Bright Alliance Building, Randwick, NSW Australia
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- University of California Irvine, Department of Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute, Irvine, CA USA
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Norbert Arnold
- University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, and Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel, Germany
| | - Kristan J. Aronson
- Queen’s University, Department of Public Health Sciences, and Cancer Research Institute, Kingston, ON Canada
| | - Banu K. Arun
- University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Breast Medical Oncology, Houston, TX USA
| | - Ella Asseryanis
- Medical University of Vienna, Dept of OB/GYN and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Vienna, Austria
| | - Bernd Auber
- Hannover Medical School, Institute of Human Genetics, Hannover, Germany
| | - Päivi Auvinen
- Kuopio University Hospital, Cancer Center, Kuopio, Finland
- University of Eastern Finland, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Oncology, Kuopio, Finland
- University of Eastern Finland, Translational Cancer Research Area, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Jacopo Azzollini
- Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Unit of Medical Genetics, Milan, Italy
| | - Judith Balmaña
- Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology, High Risk and Cancer Prevention Group, Barcelona, Spain
- University Hospital, Vall d’Hebron, Department of Medical Oncology, Barcelona, Spain
| | - Rosa B. Barkardottir
- Landspitali University Hospital, Department of Pathology, Reykjavik, Iceland
- University of Iceland, BMC (Biomedical Centre), Faculty of Medicine, Reykjavik, Iceland
| | - Daniel Barrowdale
- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge, UK
| | - Julian Barwell
- University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, Leicester, UK
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- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Bethesda, MD USA
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- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec – Université Laval, Research Center, Genomics Center, Québec City, QC Canada
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- University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Comprehensive Cancer Center ER-EMN, Erlangen, Germany
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Human Genetics Group, Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Madrid, Spain
- Spanish Network on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain
- Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Genotyping Unit (CEGEN), Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Madrid, Spain
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- Chaim Sheba Medical Center, The Institute of Oncology, Ramat Gan, Israel
| | - Marina Bermisheva
- Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa, Russia
| | - Amie M. Blanco
- University of California San Francisco, Cancer Genetics and Prevention Program, San Francisco, CA USA
| | - Carl Blomqvist
- University of Helsinki, Department of Oncology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Örebro University Hospital, Department of Oncology, Örebro, Sweden
| | - Natalia V. Bogdanova
- N.N. Alexandrov Research Institute of Oncology and Medical Radiology, Minsk, Belarus
- Hannover Medical School, Department of Radiation Oncology, Hannover, Germany
- Hannover Medical School, Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover, Germany
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- Aarhus University Hospital, Department of Clinical Genetics, Aarhus, Denmark
| | - Stig E. Bojesen
- Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
- Copenhagen University Hospital, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
- University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Bernardo Bonanni
- IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Division of Cancer Prevention and Genetics, Milan, Italy
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- Lund University and Skåne University Hospital, Department of Oncology, Lund, Sweden
| | - Angela F. Brady
- London North West University Hospitals NHS Trust, Northwick Park Hospital, North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy Galton Centre, Harrow, UK
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- Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany
- University of Tübingen, iFIT-Cluster of Excellence, Tübingen, Germany
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Division of Preventive Oncology, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
| | - Barbara Burwinkel
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Molecular Epidemiology Group, C080 Heidelberg, Germany
- University of Heidelberg, Molecular Biology of Breast Cancer, University Womens Clinic Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute, Department of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT USA
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- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
| | - Almuth Caliebe
- University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Institute of Human Genetics, Kiel, Germany
| | - Maria A. Caligo
- University Hospital of Pisa, Section of Molecular Genetics, Dept. of Laboratory Medicine, Pisa, Italy
| | - Daniele Campa
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Heidelberg, Germany
- University of Pisa, Department of Biology, Pisa, Italy
| | - Ian G. Campbell
- Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, Research Division, Melbourne, VIC Australia
- The University of Melbourne, Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, Melbourne, VIC Australia
| | - Federico Canzian
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Genomic Epidemiology Group, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Jose E. Castelao
- Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria Galicia Sur (IISGS), Xerencia de Xestion Integrada de Vigo-SERGAS, Oncology and Genetics Unit, Vigo, Spain
| | - Jenny Chang-Claude
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Heidelberg, Germany
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Cancer Epidemiology Group, University Cancer Center Hamburg (UCCH), Hamburg, Germany
| | - Stephen J. Chanock
- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Bethesda, MD USA
| | | | - Christine L. Clarke
- University of Sydney, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, NSW Australia
| | - Anita Collavoli
- University and University Hospital of Pisa, Section of Genetic Oncology, Dept. of Laboratory Medicine, Pisa, Italy
| | | | - David G. Cox
- Imperial College London, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, London, UK
- Cancer Research Center of Lyon, INSERM, U1052 Lyon, France
| | - Cezary Cybulski
- Pomeranian Medical University, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Kamila Czene
- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Mary B. Daly
- Fox Chase Cancer Center, Department of Clinical Genetics, Philadelphia, PA USA
| | - Miguel de la Hoya
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
| | - Peter Devilee
- Leiden University Medical Center, Department of Pathology, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Leiden University Medical Center, Department of Human Genetics, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Orland Diez
- Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Oncogenetics Group, Barcelona, Spain
- University Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Area of Clinical and Molecular Genetics, Barcelona, Spain
| | - Yuan Chun Ding
- Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Department of Population Sciences, Duarte, CA USA
| | - Gillian S. Dite
- The University of Melbourne, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| | - Nina Ditsch
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Munich, Germany
| | - Susan M. Domchek
- Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Medicine, Abramson Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA USA
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- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London, UK
| | - Katarzyna Durda
- Pomeranian Medical University, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Miriam Dwek
- University of Westminster, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, London, UK
| | - Diana M. Eccles
- University of Southampton, Cancer Sciences Academic Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Southampton, UK
| | - Arif B. Ekici
- Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-EMN, Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
| | - A. Heather Eliassen
- Harvard Medical School, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA USA
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Boston, MA USA
| | - Carolina Ellberg
- Lund University, Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Clinical Sciences, Lund, Sweden
| | - Mikael Eriksson
- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - D. Gareth Evans
- University of Manchester, Division of Evolution and Genomic Medicine, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester, UK
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, Manchester, UK
| | - Peter A. Fasching
- University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Comprehensive Cancer Center ER-EMN, Erlangen, Germany
- University of California at Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Medicine Division of Hematology and Oncology, Los Angeles, CA USA
| | - Jonine Figueroa
- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Bethesda, MD USA
- The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, Edinburgh, UK
- Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Henrik Flyger
- Copenhagen University Hospital, Department of Breast Surgery, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
| | - William D. Foulkes
- McGill University, Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Human Genetics and Oncology, Montréal, QC Canada
| | - Tara M. Friebel
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA USA
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA USA
| | - Eitan Friedman
- Chaim Sheba Medical Center, The Susanne Levy Gertner Oncogenetics Unit, Ramat Gan, Israel
- Tel Aviv University, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Ramat Aviv, Israel
| | - Marike Gabrielson
- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Pragna Gaddam
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Clinical Genetics Research Lab, Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, New York, NY USA
| | - Manuela Gago-Dominguez
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago, SERGAS, Genomic Medicine Group, Galician Foundation of Genomic Medicine, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- University of California San Diego, Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA USA
| | - Chi Gao
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Boston, MA USA
| | - Susan M. Gapstur
- American Cancer Society, Epidemiology Research Program, Atlanta, GA USA
| | - Judy Garber
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Cancer Risk and Prevention Clinic, Boston, MA USA
| | - Montserrat García-Closas
- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Bethesda, MD USA
| | - José A. García-Sáenz
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
| | - Mia M. Gaudet
- American Cancer Society, Epidemiology Research Program, Atlanta, GA USA
| | - Simon A. Gayther
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, The Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Los Angeles, CA USA
| | - Graham G. Giles
- The University of Melbourne, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Cancer Council Victoria, Cancer Epidemiology Division, Melbourne, VIC Australia
- Monash University, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Melbourne, VIC Australia
| | - Gord Glendon
- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Fred A. Litwin Center for Cancer Genetics, Toronto, ON Canada
| | - Andrew K. Godwin
- Kansas University Medical Center, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Kansas City, KS USA
| | - Mark S. Goldberg
- McGill University, Department of Medicine, Montréal, QC Canada
- McGill University, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montréal, QC Canada
| | - David E. Goldgar
- Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, Department of Dermatology, Salt Lake City, UT USA
| | - Pascal Guénel
- INSERM, University Paris-Sud, University Paris-Saclay, Cancer & Environment Group, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France
| | - Angelica M. Gutierrez-Barrera
- University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Breast Medical Oncology and Clinical Genetics Program, Houston, TX USA
| | - Lothar Haeberle
- Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-EMN, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
| | - Christopher A. Haiman
- University of Southern California, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA USA
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- Karolinska Institutet, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Stockholm, Sweden
- Södersjukhuset, Department of Oncology, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Ute Hamann
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Patricia A. Harrington
- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Cambridge, UK
| | - Alexander Hein
- University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Comprehensive Cancer Center ER-EMN, Erlangen, Germany
| | - Jane Heyworth
- The University of Western Australia, School of Population and Global Health, Perth, WA Australia
| | - Peter Hillemanns
- Hannover Medical School, Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover, Germany
| | - Antoinette Hollestelle
- Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Department of Medical Oncology, Family Cancer Clinic, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - John L. Hopper
- The University of Melbourne, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| | - H. Dean Hosgood
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Bronx, NY USA
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- University of Manchester, Division of Cancer Sciences, Manchester, UK
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- Mayo Clinic, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Rochester, MN USA
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- NorthShore University HealthSystem, Center for Medical Genetics, Evanston, IL USA
- The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL USA
| | - David J. Hunter
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Boston, MA USA
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Boston, MA USA
- University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Population Health, Oxford, UK
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- Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC USA
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- Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Research Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology ‘Georgi D. Efremov’, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
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- Pomeranian Medical University, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Szczecin, Poland
- Pomeranian Medical University, Independent Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Genetic Diagnostics, Szczecin, Poland
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- The University of Melbourne, Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, Melbourne, VIC Australia
- Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, Parkville Familial Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC Australia
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- Vilnius University Hospital Santariskiu Clinics, Hematology, oncology and transfusion medicine center, Dept. of Molecular and Regenerative Medicine, Vilnius, Lithuania
- State Research Institute Innovative Medicine Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- University Hospital Ulm, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Ulm, Germany
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine (Oncology) and Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford, CA USA
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, London, UK
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Heidelberg, Germany
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Women’s Cancer Program at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Los Angeles, CA USA
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- Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa, Russia
- Bashkir State Medical University, Department of Medical Genetics, Ufa, Russia
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- National Cancer Institute, Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Bethesda, MD USA
| | - Irene Konstantopoulou
- National Centre for Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’, Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, INRASTES, Athens, Greece
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- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Bethesda, MD USA
| | - Peter Kraft
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Boston, MA USA
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Boston, MA USA
| | - Diether Lambrechts
- VIB, VIB Center for Cancer Biology, Leuven, Belgium
- University of Leuven, Laboratory for Translational Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, Leuven, Belgium
| | - Conxi Lazaro
- IDIBELL (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute),Catalan Institute of Oncology, CIBERONC, Molecular Diagnostic Unit, Hereditary Cancer Program, Barcelona, Spain
| | - Loic Le Marchand
- University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Epidemiology Program, Honolulu, HI USA
| | - Jenny Lester
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Women’s Cancer Program at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Los Angeles, CA USA
| | - Fabienne Lesueur
- Inserm U900, Genetic Epidemiology of Cancer team, Paris, France
- PSL University, Paris, France
- Institut Curie, Paris, France
- Mines ParisTech, Fontainebleau, France
| | - Jenna Lilyquist
- Mayo Clinic, Department of Health Sciences Research, Rochester, MN USA
| | - Jennifer T. Loud
- National Cancer Institute, Clinical Genetics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Bethesda, MD USA
| | - Karen H. Lu
- University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Clinical Cancer Genetics Program, Houston, TX USA
| | - Robert N. Luben
- University of Cambridge, Clinical Gerontology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge, UK
| | - Jan Lubinski
- Pomeranian Medical University, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Arto Mannermaa
- University of Eastern Finland, Translational Cancer Research Area, Kuopio, Finland
- University of Eastern Finland, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
- Kuopio University Hospital, Imaging Center, Department of Clinical Pathology, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Mehdi Manoochehri
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Siranoush Manoukian
- Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Unit of Medical Genetics, Milan, Italy
| | - Sara Margolin
- Södersjukhuset, Department of Oncology, Stockholm, Sweden
- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - John W. M. Martens
- Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Department of Medical Oncology, Family Cancer Clinic, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Tabea Maurer
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Cancer Epidemiology Group, University Cancer Center Hamburg (UCCH), Hamburg, Germany
| | - Dimitrios Mavroudis
- University Hospital of Heraklion, Department of Medical Oncology, Heraklion, Greece
| | - Noura Mebirouk
- Inserm U900, Genetic Epidemiology of Cancer team, Paris, France
- PSL University, Paris, France
- Institut Curie, Paris, France
- Mines ParisTech, Fontainebleau, France
| | - Alfons Meindl
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Munich, Germany
| | - Usha Menon
- University College London, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Institute of Clinical Trials & Methodology, London, UK
| | - Austin Miller
- Roswell Park Cancer Institute, NRG Oncology, Clinical Trials Development Division, Buffalo, NY USA
| | - Marco Montagna
- Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV - IRCCS, Immunology and Molecular Oncology Unit, Padua, Italy
| | - Katherine L. Nathanson
- Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Medicine, Abramson Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA USA
| | - Susan L. Neuhausen
- Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Department of Population Sciences, Duarte, CA USA
| | - William G. Newman
- University of Manchester, Division of Evolution and Genomic Medicine, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester, UK
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, Manchester, UK
| | - Tu Nguyen-Dumont
- Monash University, Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Clayton, VIC Australia
- The University of Melbourne, Department of Clinical Pathology, Melbourne, VIC Australia
| | - Finn Cilius Nielsen
- Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Center for Genomic Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Sarah Nielsen
- The University of Chicago, Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics, Chicago, IL USA
| | | | - Kenneth Offit
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Clinical Genetics Research Lab, Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, New York, NY USA
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Clinical Genetics Service, Department of Medicine, New York, NY USA
| | - Edith Olah
- National Institute of Oncology, Department of Molecular Genetics, Budapest, Hungary
| | | | - Andrew F. Olshan
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Epidemiology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chapel Hill, NC USA
| | - Janet E. Olson
- Mayo Clinic, Department of Health Sciences Research, Rochester, MN USA
| | - Håkan Olsson
- Lund University, Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Clinical Sciences, Lund, Sweden
| | - Ana Osorio
- Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Human Genetics Group, Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Madrid, Spain
- Spanish Network on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain
| | - Laura Ottini
- University La Sapienza, Department of Molecular Medicine, Rome, Italy
| | - Bernard Peissel
- Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Unit of Medical Genetics, Milan, Italy
| | - Ana Peixoto
- Portuguese Oncology Institute, Department of Genetics, Porto, Portugal
| | - Julian Peto
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London, UK
| | - Dijana Plaseska-Karanfilska
- Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Research Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology ‘Georgi D. Efremov’, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
| | - Timea Pocza
- National Institute of Oncology, Department of Molecular Genetics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - Nadege Presneau
- University of Westminster, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, London, UK
| | - Miquel Angel Pujana
- IDIBELL (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute),Catalan Institute of Oncology, CIBERONC, ProCURE, Oncobell, Barcelona, Spain
| | - Kevin Punie
- Leuven Cancer Institute, University Hospitals Leuven, Multidisciplinary Breast Center, Department of General Medical Oncology, Leuven, Belgium
| | - Brigitte Rack
- University Hospital Ulm, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Ulm, Germany
| | | | - Muhammad U. Rashid
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, Heidelberg, Germany
- Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (SKMCH & RC), Department of Basic Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan
| | - Rohini Rau-Murthy
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Clinical Genetics Service, Department of Medicine, New York, NY USA
| | - Gad Rennert
- Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel
| | - Flavio Lejbkowicz
- Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel
| | - Valerie Rhenius
- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Cambridge, UK
| | - Atocha Romero
- Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Medical Oncology Department, Madrid, Spain
| | - Matti A. Rookus
- The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Department of Epidemiology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Eric A. Ross
- Fox Chase Cancer Center, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Facility, Philadelphia, PA USA
| | - Maria Rossing
- Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Center for Genomic Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Vilius Rudaitis
- Vilnius University, Medical Faculty, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Vilnius, Lithuania
| | - Matthias Ruebner
- Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-EMN, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
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- University of Wisconsin, Cancer Center at ProHealth Care, Waukesha, WI USA
| | - Marta Santamariña
- Spanish Network on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain
- Fundación Pública Galega Medicina Xenómica, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
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- University of California San Francisco, Cancer Genetics and Prevention Program, San Francisco, CA USA
| | - Rita K. Schmutzler
- University Hospital of Cologne, Center for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Cologne, Germany
- University of Cologne, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), Cologne, Germany
| | - Michael Schneider
- Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-EMN, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
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- Mayo Clinic, Department of Health Sciences Research, Rochester, MN USA
| | - Leigha Senter
- The Ohio State University, Clinical Cancer Genetics Program, Division of Human Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, The Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH USA
| | - Mitul Shah
- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Cambridge, UK
| | - Priyanka Sharma
- University of Kansas Medical Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Oncology, Westwood, KS USA
| | - Xiao-Ou Shu
- Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN USA
| | - Jacques Simard
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec – Université Laval, Research Center, Genomics Center, Québec City, QC Canada
| | - Christian F. Singer
- Medical University of Vienna, Dept of OB/GYN and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Vienna, Austria
| | - Christof Sohn
- University of Heidelberg, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Penny Soucy
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec – Université Laval, Research Center, Genomics Center, Québec City, QC Canada
| | - Melissa C. Southey
- Monash University, Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Clayton, VIC Australia
- The University of Melbourne, Department of Clinical Pathology, Melbourne, VIC Australia
| | - John J. Spinelli
- BC Cancer, Population Oncology, Vancouver, BC Canada
- University of British Columbia, School of Population and Public Health, Vancouver, BC Canada
| | - Linda Steele
- Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Department of Population Sciences, Duarte, CA USA
| | - Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet
- Institut Curie, Service de Génétique, Paris, France
- INSERM U830, Department of Tumour Biology, Paris, France
- Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
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- Portuguese Oncology Institute, Department of Genetics, Porto, Portugal
- University of Porto, Biomedical Sciences Institute (ICBAS), Porto, Portugal
| | - Mary Beth Terry
- Columbia University, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY USA
| | - Mads Thomassen
- Odense University Hospital, Department of Clinical Genetics, Odence C, Denmark
| | - Jennifer Thompson
- NorthShore University HealthSystem, Center for Medical Genetics, Evanston, IL USA
| | - Darcy L. Thull
- Magee-Womens Hospital, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA USA
| | - Marc Tischkowitz
- McGill University, Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Human Genetics and Oncology, Montréal, QC Canada
- University of Cambridge, Department of Medical Genetics, Cambridge, UK
| | - Rob A.E.M. Tollenaar
- Leiden University Medical Center, Department of Surgery, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Diana Torres
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, Heidelberg, Germany
- Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Institute of Human Genetics, Bogota, Colombia
| | - Melissa A. Troester
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Epidemiology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chapel Hill, NC USA
| | - Thérèse Truong
- INSERM, University Paris-Sud, University Paris-Saclay, Cancer & Environment Group, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France
| | - Nadine Tung
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Medical Oncology, Boston, MA USA
| | - Michael Untch
- Helios Clinics Berlin-Buch, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Berlin, Germany
| | - Celine M. Vachon
- Mayo Clinic, Department of Health Sciences Research, Rochester, MN USA
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- University of Manchester, Division of Evolution and Genomic Medicine, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester, UK
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, Manchester, UK
| | - Ana Vega
- Spanish Network on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain
- Fundación Pública Galega Medicina Xenómica, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
| | - Alessandra Viel
- Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO), IRCCS, Division of Functional onco-genomics and genetics, Aviano, Italy
| | - Barbara Wappenschmidt
- University Hospital of Cologne, Center for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Cologne, Germany
- University of Cologne, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), Cologne, Germany
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- Södersjukhuset, Department of Oncology, Stockholm, Sweden
- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Greet Wieme
- Ghent University, Centre for Medical Genetics, Gent, Belgium
| | - Alicja Wolk
- Karolinska Institutet, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden
- Uppsala University, Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Xiaohong R. Yang
- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Bethesda, MD USA
| | - Wei Zheng
- Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN USA
| | - Argyrios Ziogas
- University of California Irvine, Department of Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute, Irvine, CA USA
| | - Kristin K. Zorn
- Magee-Womens Hospital, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA USA
| | - Alison M. Dunning
- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Cambridge, UK
| | - Michael Lush
- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge, UK
| | - Qin Wang
- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge, UK
| | - Lesley McGuffog
- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge, UK
| | - Michael T. Parsons
- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, Brisbane, QLD Australia
| | - Paul D. P. Pharoah
- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge, UK
- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Cambridge, UK
| | - Florentia Fostira
- National Centre for Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’, Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, INRASTES, Athens, Greece
| | - Amanda E. Toland
- The Ohio State University, Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Columbus, OH USA
| | - Irene L. Andrulis
- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Fred A. Litwin Center for Cancer Genetics, Toronto, ON Canada
- University of Toronto, Department of Molecular Genetics, Toronto, ON Canada
| | - Susan J. Ramus
- University of NSW Sydney, School of Women’s and Children’s Health, Faculty of Medicine, Sydney, NSW Australia
- The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, NSW Australia
| | - Anthony J. Swerdlow
- The Institute of Cancer Research, Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, London, UK
- The Institute of Cancer Research, Division of Breast Cancer Research, London, UK
| | - Mark H. Greene
- National Cancer Institute, Clinical Genetics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Bethesda, MD USA
| | - Wendy K. Chung
- Columbia University, Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, New York, NY USA
| | - Roger L. Milne
- The University of Melbourne, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Cancer Council Victoria, Cancer Epidemiology Division, Melbourne, VIC Australia
- Monash University, Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Clayton, VIC Australia
| | - Georgia Chenevix-Trench
- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, Brisbane, QLD Australia
| | - Thilo Dörk
- Hannover Medical School, Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover, Germany
| | - Marjanka K. Schmidt
- The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Division of Molecular Pathology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital, Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Douglas F. Easton
- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge, UK
- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Cambridge, UK
| | - Paolo Radice
- Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Unit of Molecular Bases of Genetic Risk and Genetic Testing, Department of Research, Milan, Italy
| | - Eric Hahnen
- University Hospital of Cologne, Center for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Cologne, Germany
- University of Cologne, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), Cologne, Germany
| | - Antonis C. Antoniou
- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge, UK
| | - Fergus J. Couch
- Mayo Clinic, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Rochester, MN USA
| | - Heli Nevanlinna
- University of Helsinki, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Jordi Surrallés
- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona Spain
- Center for Biomedical Network Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain
- Institute of Biomedical Research, Sant Pau Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Genetics, Sant Pau Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
| | - Paolo Peterlongo
- IFOM - the FIRC Institute for Molecular Oncology, Genome Diagnostics Program, Milan, Italy
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Ferreira MA, Gamazon ER, Al-Ejeh F, Aittomäki K, Andrulis IL, Anton-Culver H, Arason A, Arndt V, Aronson KJ, Arun BK, Asseryanis E, Azzollini J, Balmaña J, Barnes DR, Barrowdale D, Beckmann MW, Behrens S, Benitez J, Bermisheva M, Białkowska K, Blomqvist C, Bogdanova NV, Bojesen SE, Bolla MK, Borg A, Brauch H, Brenner H, Broeks A, Burwinkel B, Caldés T, Caligo MA, Campa D, Campbell I, Canzian F, Carter J, Carter BD, Castelao JE, Chang-Claude J, Chanock SJ, Christiansen H, Chung WK, Claes KBM, Clarke CL, Couch FJ, Cox A, Cross SS, Czene K, Daly MB, de la Hoya M, Dennis J, Devilee P, Diez O, Dörk T, Dunning AM, Dwek M, Eccles DM, Ejlertsen B, Ellberg C, Engel C, Eriksson M, Fasching PA, Fletcher O, Flyger H, Friedman E, Frost D, Gabrielson M, Gago-Dominguez M, Ganz PA, Gapstur SM, Garber J, García-Closas M, García-Sáenz JA, Gaudet MM, Giles GG, Glendon G, Godwin AK, Goldberg MS, Goldgar DE, González-Neira A, Greene MH, Gronwald J, Guénel P, Haiman CA, Hall P, Hamann U, He W, Heyworth J, Hogervorst FBL, Hollestelle A, Hoover RN, Hopper JL, Hulick PJ, Humphreys K, Imyanitov EN, Isaacs C, Jakimovska M, Jakubowska A, James PA, Janavicius R, Jankowitz RC, John EM, Johnson N, Joseph V, Karlan BY, Khusnutdinova E, Kiiski JI, Ko YD, Jones ME, Konstantopoulou I, Kristensen VN, Laitman Y, Lambrechts D, Lazaro C, Leslie G, Lester J, Lesueur F, Lindström S, Long J, Loud JT, Lubiński J, Makalic E, Mannermaa A, Manoochehri M, Margolin S, Maurer T, Mavroudis D, McGuffog L, Meindl A, Menon U, Michailidou K, Miller A, Montagna M, Moreno F, Moserle L, Mulligan AM, Nathanson KL, Neuhausen SL, Nevanlinna H, Nevelsteen I, Nielsen FC, Nikitina-Zake L, Nussbaum RL, Offit K, Olah E, Olopade OI, Olsson H, Osorio A, Papp J, Park-Simon TW, Parsons MT, Pedersen IS, Peixoto A, Peterlongo P, Pharoah PDP, Plaseska-Karanfilska D, Poppe B, Presneau N, Radice P, Rantala J, Rennert G, Risch HA, Saloustros E, Sanden K, Sawyer EJ, Schmidt MK, Schmutzler RK, Sharma P, Shu XO, Simard J, Singer CF, Soucy P, Southey MC, Spinelli JJ, Spurdle AB, Stone J, Swerdlow AJ, Tapper WJ, Taylor JA, Teixeira MR, Terry MB, Teulé A, Thomassen M, Thöne K, Thull DL, Tischkowitz M, Toland AE, Torres D, Truong T, Tung N, Vachon CM, van Asperen CJ, van den Ouweland AMW, van Rensburg EJ, Vega A, Viel A, Wang Q, Wappenschmidt B, Weitzel JN, Wendt C, Winqvist R, Yang XR, Yannoukakos D, Ziogas A, Kraft P, Antoniou AC, Zheng W, Easton DF, Milne RL, Beesley J, Chenevix-Trench G. Genome-wide association and transcriptome studies identify target genes and risk loci for breast cancer. Nat Commun 2019; 10:1741. [PMID: 30988301 PMCID: PMC6465407 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-08053-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2018] [Accepted: 12/14/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 170 breast cancer susceptibility loci. Here we hypothesize that some risk-associated variants might act in non-breast tissues, specifically adipose tissue and immune cells from blood and spleen. Using expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) reported in these tissues, we identify 26 previously unreported, likely target genes of overall breast cancer risk variants, and 17 for estrogen receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer, several with a known immune function. We determine the directional effect of gene expression on disease risk measured based on single and multiple eQTL. In addition, using a gene-based test of association that considers eQTL from multiple tissues, we identify seven (and four) regions with variants associated with overall (and ER-negative) breast cancer risk, which were not reported in previous GWAS. Further investigation of the function of the implicated genes in breast and immune cells may provide insights into the etiology of breast cancer.
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- Manuel A Ferreira
- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, 4006, Australia.
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- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37235, USA
- Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 9AL, UK
| | - Fares Al-Ejeh
- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, 4006, Australia
| | - Kristiina Aittomäki
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, 00290, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Irene L Andrulis
- Fred A. Litwin Center for Cancer Genetics, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, M5G 1X5, Canada
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A8, Canada
| | - Hoda Anton-Culver
- Department of Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA, 92617
| | - Adalgeir Arason
- Department of Pathology, Landspitali University Hospital, 101, Reykjavik, Iceland
- BMC (Biomedical Centre), Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, 101, Reykjavik, Iceland
| | - Volker Arndt
- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, C070, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Kristan J Aronson
- Department of Public Health Sciences, and Cancer Research Institute, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada
| | - Banu K Arun
- Department of Breast Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
| | - Ella Asseryanis
- Dept of OB/GYN and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, 1090, Vienna, Austria
| | - Jacopo Azzollini
- Unit of Medical Genetics, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (INT), 20133, Milan, Italy
| | - Judith Balmaña
- Oncogenetics Group, Vall dHebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), 8035, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Medical Oncology, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), University Hospital, Vall d'Hebron, 08035, Barcelona, Spain
| | - Daniel R Barnes
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Daniel Barrowdale
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Matthias W Beckmann
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Comprehensive Cancer Center ER-EMN, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91054, Erlangen, Germany
| | - Sabine Behrens
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Javier Benitez
- Centro de Investigación en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), 46010, Valencia, Spain
- Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), 28029, Madrid, Spain
| | - Marina Bermisheva
- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Federal Research Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences, 450054, Ufa, Russia
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, 71-252, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Carl Blomqvist
- Department of Oncology, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, 00290, Finland
- Department of Oncology, Örebro University Hospital, 70185, Örebro, Sweden
| | - Natalia V Bogdanova
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hannover Medical School, 30625, Hannover, Germany
- Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, 30625, Hannover, Germany
- N.N. Alexandrov Research Institute of Oncology and Medical Radiology, 223040, Minsk, Belarus
| | - Stig E Bojesen
- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, 2730, Herlev, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, 2730, Herlev, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Oncology, Lund University and Skåne University Hospital, 222 41, Lund, Sweden
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- Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, 70376, Stuttgart, Germany
- University of Tübingen, 72074, Tübingen, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Hermann Brenner
- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, C070, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, 1066 CX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Molecular Epidemiology Group, C080, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Molecular Biology of Breast Cancer, University Womens Clinic Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Trinidad Caldés
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, CIBERONC, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, IdISSC (Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Clínico San Carlos), 28040, Madrid, Spain
| | - Maria A Caligo
- Section of Molecular Genetics, Dept. of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital of Pisa, 56126, Pisa, Italy
| | - Daniele Campa
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Biology, University of Pisa, 56126, Pisa, Italy
| | - Ian Campbell
- Research Department, Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
| | - Federico Canzian
- Genomic Epidemiology Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Jonathan Carter
- Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Chris O'Brien Lifehouse and The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, 2050, Australia
| | - Brian D Carter
- Behavioral and Epidemiology Research Group, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA, 30303
| | - Jose E Castelao
- Oncology and Genetics Unit, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria Galicia Sur (IISGS), Xerencia de Xestion Integrada de Vigo-SERGAS, 36312, Vigo, Spain
| | - Jenny Chang-Claude
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Cancer Epidemiology Group, University Cancer Center Hamburg (UCCH), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246, Hamburg, Germany
| | - Stephen J Chanock
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, 20850, USA
| | - Hans Christiansen
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hannover Medical School, 30625, Hannover, Germany
| | - Wendy K Chung
- Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10032, USA
| | | | - Christine L Clarke
- Westmead Institute for Medical Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2145, Australia
| | - Fergus J Couch
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA
| | - Angela Cox
- Sheffield Institute for Nucleic Acids (SInFoNiA), Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
| | - Simon S Cross
- Academic Unit of Pathology, Department of Neuroscience, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
| | - Kamila Czene
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 65, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Mary B Daly
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, 19111, USA
| | - Miguel de la Hoya
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, CIBERONC, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, IdISSC (Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Clínico San Carlos), 28040, Madrid, Spain
| | - Joe Dennis
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Peter Devilee
- Department of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, 2333 ZA, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, 2333 ZA, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Orland Diez
- Oncogenetics Group, Vall dHebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), 8035, Barcelona, Spain
- Clinical and Molecular Genetics Area, University Hospital Vall dHebron, Barcelona, 08035, Spain
| | - Thilo Dörk
- Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, 30625, Hannover, Germany
| | - Alison M Dunning
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Miriam Dwek
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Westminster, London, W1B 2HW, UK
| | - Diana M Eccles
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
| | - Bent Ejlertsen
- Department of Oncology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Carolina Ellberg
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Clinical Sciences, Lund University, 222 42, Lund, Sweden
| | - Christoph Engel
- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, 04107, Leipzig, Germany
| | - Mikael Eriksson
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 65, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Peter A Fasching
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Comprehensive Cancer Center ER-EMN, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91054, Erlangen, Germany
- David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Medicine Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
| | - Olivia Fletcher
- The Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SW7 3RP, UK
| | - Henrik Flyger
- Department of Breast Surgery, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, 2730, Herlev, Denmark
| | - Eitan Friedman
- The Susanne Levy Gertner Oncogenetics Unit, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, 52621, Ramat Gan, Israel
- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, 69978, Ramat Aviv, Israel
| | - Debra Frost
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Marike Gabrielson
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 65, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Manuela Gago-Dominguez
- Genomic Medicine Group, Galician Foundation of Genomic Medicine, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago, SERGAS, 15706, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
| | - Patricia A Ganz
- Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Division of Cancer Prevention & Control Research, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Centre, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90096-6900, USA
| | - Susan M Gapstur
- Behavioral and Epidemiology Research Group, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA, 30303
| | - Judy Garber
- Cancer Risk and Prevention Clinic, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
| | - Montserrat García-Closas
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, 20850, USA
- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, London, SM2 5NG, UK
| | - José A García-Sáenz
- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), 28040, Madrid, Spain
| | - Mia M Gaudet
- Behavioral and Epidemiology Research Group, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA, 30303
| | - Graham G Giles
- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
- Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia
| | - Gord Glendon
- Fred A. Litwin Center for Cancer Genetics, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, M5G 1X5, Canada
| | - Andrew K Godwin
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, 66160, USA
| | - Mark S Goldberg
- Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, QC, H4A 3J1, Canada
- Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University, Montréal, QC, H4A 3J1, Canada
| | - David E Goldgar
- Department of Dermatology, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
| | - Anna González-Neira
- Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), 28029, Madrid, Spain
| | - Mark H Greene
- Clinical Genetics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, 20850-9772, USA
| | - Jacek Gronwald
- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, 71-252, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Pascal Guénel
- Cancer & Environment Group, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), INSERM, University Paris-Sud, University Paris-Saclay, 94805, Villejuif, France
| | - Christopher A Haiman
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
| | - Per Hall
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 65, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Oncology, Södersjukhuset, 118 83, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Ute Hamann
- Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Wei He
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 65, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Jane Heyworth
- School of Population and Global Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia
| | - Frans B L Hogervorst
- Family Cancer Clinic, The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital, Amsterdam, 1066 CX, The Netherlands
| | - Antoinette Hollestelle
- Department of Medical Oncology, Family Cancer Clinic, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, The Netherlands
| | - Robert N Hoover
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, 20850, USA
| | - John L Hopper
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
| | - Peter J Hulick
- Center for Medical Genetics, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL, 60201, USA
- The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
| | - Keith Humphreys
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 65, Stockholm, Sweden
| | | | - Claudine Isaacs
- Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 20007, USA
| | - Milena Jakimovska
- Research Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 'Georgi D. Efremov', Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Skopje, 1000, Republic of Macedonia
| | - Anna Jakubowska
- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, 71-252, Szczecin, Poland
- Independent Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Genetic Diagnostics, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, 71-252, Poland
| | - Paul A James
- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
- Parkville Familial Cancer Centre, Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
| | - Ramunas Janavicius
- Hematology, oncology and transfusion medicine center, Dept. of Molecular and Regenerative Medicine, Vilnius University Hospital Santariskiu Clinics, Vilnius, 08410, Lithuania
| | - Rachel C Jankowitz
- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 15232, USA
| | - Esther M John
- Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94304, USA
| | - Nichola Johnson
- The Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SW7 3RP, UK
| | - Vijai Joseph
- Clinical Genetics Research Lab, Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 10065, USA
| | - Beth Y Karlan
- David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
| | - Elza Khusnutdinova
- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Federal Research Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences, 450054, Ufa, Russia
- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State Medical University, 450076, Ufa, Russia
| | - Johanna I Kiiski
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, 00290, Finland
| | - Yon-Dschun Ko
- Department of Internal Medicine, Evangelische Kliniken Bonn gGmbH, Johanniter Krankenhaus, Bonn, 53177, Germany
| | - Michael E Jones
- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SM2 5NG, UK
| | - Irene Konstantopoulou
- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, INRASTES, National Centre for Scientific Research 'Demokritos', Athens, 15310, Greece
| | - Vessela N Kristensen
- Department of Cancer Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital-Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, 0379, Norway
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, 0450, Norway
| | - Yael Laitman
- The Susanne Levy Gertner Oncogenetics Unit, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, 52621, Ramat Gan, Israel
| | - Diether Lambrechts
- VIB Center for Cancer Biology, VIB, Leuven, 3001, Belgium
- Laboratory for Translational Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, University of Leuven, Leuven, 3000, Belgium
| | - Conxi Lazaro
- Molecular Diagnostic Unit, Hereditary Cancer Program, ICO-IDIBELL (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, Catalan Institute of Oncology), CIBERONC, Barcelona, 08908, Spain
| | - Goska Leslie
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Jenny Lester
- David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
| | - Fabienne Lesueur
- Genetic Epidemiology of Cancer team, Inserm U900, Paris, 75005, France
- Institut Curie, Paris, 75005, France
- Mines ParisTech, Fontainebleau, 77305, France
| | - Sara Lindström
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
| | - Jirong Long
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
| | - Jennifer T Loud
- Clinical Genetics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, 20850-9772, USA
| | - Jan Lubiński
- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, 71-252, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Enes Makalic
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
| | - Arto Mannermaa
- Translational Cancer Research Area, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, 70210, Finland
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, 70210, Finland
- Imaging Center, Department of Clinical Pathology, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, 70210, Finland
| | - Mehdi Manoochehri
- Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Sara Margolin
- Department of Oncology, Södersjukhuset, 118 83, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 118 83, Sweden
| | - Tabea Maurer
- Cancer Epidemiology Group, University Cancer Center Hamburg (UCCH), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246, Hamburg, Germany
| | - Dimitrios Mavroudis
- Department of Medical Oncology, University Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, 711 10, Greece
| | - Lesley McGuffog
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Alfons Meindl
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University of Munich, Campus Großhadern, Munich, 81377, Germany
| | - Usha Menon
- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Institute of Clinical Trials & Methodology, University College London, London, WC1V 6LJ, UK
| | - Kyriaki Michailidou
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- Department of Electron Microscopy/Molecular Pathology and The Cyprus School of Molecular Medicine, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology & Genetics, Nicosia, 1683, Cyprus
| | - Austin Miller
- NRG Oncology, Statistics and Data Management Center, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, 14263, USA
| | - Marco Montagna
- Immunology and Molecular Oncology Unit, Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV - IRCCS, Padua, 35128, Italy
| | - Fernando Moreno
- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), 28040, Madrid, Spain
| | - Lidia Moserle
- Immunology and Molecular Oncology Unit, Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV - IRCCS, Padua, 35128, Italy
| | - Anna Marie Mulligan
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A8, Canada
- Laboratory Medicine Program, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, M5G 2C4, Canada
| | - Katherine L Nathanson
- Basser Center for BRCA, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19066, USA
| | - Susan L Neuhausen
- Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA, 91010, USA
| | - Heli Nevanlinna
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, 00290, Finland
| | - Ines Nevelsteen
- Leuven Multidisciplinary Breast Center, Department of Oncology, Leuven Cancer Institute, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, 3000, Belgium
| | - Finn C Nielsen
- Center for Genomic Medicine, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, DK-2100, Denmark
| | | | - Robert L Nussbaum
- Cancer Genetics and Prevention Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94143-1714, USA
| | - Kenneth Offit
- Clinical Genetics Research Lab, Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 10065, USA
- Clinical Genetics Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 10065, USA
| | - Edith Olah
- Department of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, 1122, Hungary
| | | | - Håkan Olsson
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Clinical Sciences, Lund University, 222 42, Lund, Sweden
| | - Ana Osorio
- Centro de Investigación en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), 46010, Valencia, Spain
- Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), 28029, Madrid, Spain
| | - Janos Papp
- Department of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, 1122, Hungary
| | | | - Michael T Parsons
- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, 4006, Australia
| | - Inge Sokilde Pedersen
- Molecular Diagnostics, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, 9000, Denmark
- Clinical Cancer Research Center, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, 9000, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, 9000, Denmark
| | - Ana Peixoto
- Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute, Porto, 4220-072, Portugal
| | - Paolo Peterlongo
- Genome Diagnostics Program, IFOM - the FIRC (Italian Foundation for Cancer Research) Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, 20139, Italy
| | - Paul D P Pharoah
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Dijana Plaseska-Karanfilska
- Research Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 'Georgi D. Efremov', Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Skopje, 1000, Republic of Macedonia
| | - Bruce Poppe
- Centre for Medical Genetics, Ghent University, Gent, 9000, Belgium
| | - Nadege Presneau
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Westminster, London, W1B 2HW, UK
| | - Paolo Radice
- Unit of Molecular Bases of Genetic Risk and Genetic Testing, Department of Research, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (INT), Milan, 20133, Italy
| | - Johanna Rantala
- Clinical Genetics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 171 76, Sweden
| | - Gad Rennert
- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, 35254, Israel
| | - Harvey A Risch
- Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA
| | | | - Kristin Sanden
- City of Hope Clinical Cancer Genetics Community Research Network, Duarte, CA, 91010, USA
| | - Elinor J Sawyer
- Research Oncology, Guy's Hospital, King's College London, London, SE1 9RT, UK
| | - Marjanka K Schmidt
- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, 1066 CX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital, Amsterdam, 1066 CX, The Netherlands
| | - Rita K Schmutzler
- Center for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, 50937, Germany
- Center for Integrated Oncology (CIO), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, 50937, Cologne, Germany
| | - Priyanka Sharma
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Oncology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Westwood, KS, 66205, USA
| | - Xiao-Ou Shu
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
| | - Jacques Simard
- Genomics Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec - Université Laval, Research Center, Québec City, QC, G1V 4G2, Canada
| | - Christian F Singer
- Dept of OB/GYN and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, 1090, Vienna, Austria
| | - Penny Soucy
- Genomics Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec - Université Laval, Research Center, Québec City, QC, G1V 4G2, Canada
| | - Melissa C Southey
- Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
- Department of Clinical Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
| | - John J Spinelli
- Population Oncology, BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 1G1, Canada
- School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
| | - Amanda B Spurdle
- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, 4006, Australia
| | - Jennifer Stone
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
- The Curtin UWA Centre for Genetic Origins of Health and Disease, Curtin University and University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
| | - Anthony J Swerdlow
- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SM2 5NG, UK
- Division of Breast Cancer Research, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SW7 3RP, UK
| | - William J Tapper
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
| | - Jack A Taylor
- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
- Epigenetic and Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
| | - Manuel R Teixeira
- Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute, Porto, 4220-072, Portugal
- Biomedical Sciences Institute (ICBAS), University of Porto, Porto, 4050-013, Portugal
| | - Mary Beth Terry
- Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10032, USA
| | - Alex Teulé
- Genetic Counseling Unit, Hereditary Cancer Program, IDIBELL (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute),Catalan Institute of Oncology, CIBERONC, Barcelona, 08908, Spain
| | - Mads Thomassen
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Odense University Hospital, Odence C, 5000, Denmark
| | - Kathrin Thöne
- Cancer Epidemiology Group, University Cancer Center Hamburg (UCCH), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246, Hamburg, Germany
| | - Darcy L Thull
- Department of Medicine, Magee-Womens Hospital, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
| | - Marc Tischkowitz
- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Human Genetics and Oncology, McGill University, Montréal, QC, H4A 3J1, Canada
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Amanda E Toland
- Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
| | - Diana Torres
- Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, 110231, Colombia
| | - Thérèse Truong
- Cancer & Environment Group, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), INSERM, University Paris-Sud, University Paris-Saclay, 94805, Villejuif, France
| | - Nadine Tung
- Department of Medical Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
| | - Celine M Vachon
- Department of Health Science Research, Division of Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA
| | - Christi J van Asperen
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, 2333 ZA, The Netherlands
| | - Ans M W van den Ouweland
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, The Netherlands
| | | | - Ana Vega
- Fundación Pública galega Medicina Xenómica-SERGAS, Grupo de Medicina Xenómica-USC, CIBERER, IDIS, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
| | - Alessandra Viel
- Division of Functional onco-genomics and genetics, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO), IRCCS, Aviano, 33081, Italy
| | - Qin Wang
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Barbara Wappenschmidt
- Center for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, 50937, Germany
- Center for Integrated Oncology (CIO), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, 50937, Cologne, Germany
| | | | - Camilla Wendt
- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 118 83, Sweden
| | - Robert Winqvist
- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Cancer and Translational Medicine Research Unit, Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, 90570, Finland
- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Northern Finland Laboratory Centre Oulu, Oulu, 90570, Finland
| | - Xiaohong R Yang
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, 20850, USA
| | - Drakoulis Yannoukakos
- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, INRASTES, National Centre for Scientific Research 'Demokritos', Athens, 15310, Greece
| | - Argyrios Ziogas
- Department of Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA, 92617
| | - Peter Kraft
- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, 02115, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
| | - Antonis C Antoniou
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Wei Zheng
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
| | - Douglas F Easton
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Roger L Milne
- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
- Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, 4006, Australia
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, 4006, Australia
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Zaric O, Farr A, Poblador Rodriguez E, Mlynarik V, Bogner W, Gruber S, Asseryanis E, Singer CF, Trattnig S. 7T CEST MRI: A potential imaging tool for the assessment of tumor grade and cell proliferation in breast cancer. Magn Reson Imaging 2019; 59:77-87. [PMID: 30880110 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2019.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2019] [Revised: 03/03/2019] [Accepted: 03/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To investigate the feasibility of chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) MRI in patients with breast carcinomas and possible correlations between magnetization transfer asymmetry (MTRasym) values and histological features, such as tumor grade and the Ki-67 proliferation index. MATERIALS AND METHODS Nine healthy subjects and 18 female patients were enrolled for this study. The imaging protocol for the patients consisted of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), CEST imaging, and T1-weighted, contrast-enhanced (CE)-MRI. CEST was performed using a 3D gradient echo (GRE) sequence, employing eight pre-saturation pulses of a duration of 50 ms and a duty cycle (DC) of 80%, with a mean amplitude of the saturation pulse train of 1 μT. The Z-spectrum was plotted and MTRasym values calculated for the frequency of the maximum of MTRasym curve, were correlated with the Ki-67 proliferation index and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC). Patient data were statistically assessed using the Games-Howell post-hoc and Pearson's correlation test. RESULTS Different tumor types had asymmetry peaks at different positions of Z-spectrum. MTRasym (mean ± SD) (%) calculated for G1 (3.0 ± 0.3; range: 2.70-3.50) was not significantly lower than for G2 (4.50 ± 1.30; range: 3.20-6.50; p = 0.066). In contrast, the increase in MTRasym between G1 and G3 (6.40 ± 1.70; range: 4.80-9.80) lesions was significant (p = 0.007). No significant difference was observed between G2 and G3 with regard to MTRasym (p = 0.089). There was a strong positive correlation between the MTRasym, and Ki-67 proliferation index (r = 0.890; p = 0.001), while there was a moderate negative correlation between MTRasym and ADC values (r = -0.506; p = 0.027). CONCLUSIONS Calculated MTRasym demonstrates a strong positive correlation with tumor proliferation and has the potential to become a valuable biomarker for breast tumor characterization.
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- Olgica Zaric
- High Field MR Centre, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Breast Health Centre, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
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- High Field MR Centre, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- High Field MR Centre, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Karl Landsteiner Gesellschaft, St. Pölten, Austria
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- High Field MR Centre, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- High Field MR Centre, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Breast Health Centre, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Breast Health Centre, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- High Field MR Centre, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Christian Doppler Laboratory for Clinical Molecular MRI, Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft, Vienna, Austria
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Tea MKM, Tan YY, Staudigl C, Eibl B, Renz R, Asseryanis E, Berger A, Pfeiler G, Singer CF. Improving comprehension of genetic counseling for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer clients with a visual tool. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0200559. [PMID: 30001421 PMCID: PMC6042777 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2018] [Accepted: 06/28/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Objective Genetic counseling and testing can be offered to individuals who are at high risk of carrying a breast cancer (BRCA) gene mutation. However, the content of genetic counseling could be difficult to understand due to complex medical information. The aim of this study was to investigate if comprehension can be improved with a new genetic counseling tool (NGCT hereafter; a tool that combines complex medical information with pictures, diagrams and tables) as compared to conventional oral-only genetic counseling (CGC). Methods 207 clients attended genetic counseling for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer at the Medical University of Vienna between February 2015 and February 2016. Seventy clients participated in this study and were allocated into two groups: the first 36 participants received conventional (oral only) genetic counseling (CGC) and the following 34 participants received genetic counseling using a new genetic counseling tool (NGCT), which combines complex information with pictures, diagrams and tables. After genetic counseling, all consenting participants were invited to complete a questionnaire with seven questions evaluating their comprehension of the medical information provided. Results Socio-demographic backgrounds were comparable in both groups. Correct responses were significantly higher in the NGCT group compared to the CGC group (p = 0.012). NGCT also statistically improves correct response of Q1 (p = 0.03) and Q7 (p = 0.004). Conclusion The NGCT leads to an overall better understanding of the content of a genetic counseling session than CGC alone.
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- Muy-Kheng M. Tea
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hospital of the Sisters of Charity Linz, Linz, Austria
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Rebbeck TR, Friebel TM, Friedman E, Hamann U, Huo D, Kwong A, Olah E, Olopade OI, Solano AR, Teo SH, Thomassen M, Weitzel JN, Chan TL, Couch FJ, Goldgar DE, Kruse TA, Palmero EI, Park SK, Torres D, van Rensburg EJ, McGuffog L, Parsons MT, Leslie G, Aalfs CM, Abugattas J, Adlard J, Agata S, Aittomäki K, Andrews L, Andrulis IL, Arason A, Arnold N, Arun BK, Asseryanis E, Auerbach L, Azzollini J, Balmaña J, Barile M, Barkardottir RB, Barrowdale D, Benitez J, Berger A, Berger R, Blanco AM, Blazer KR, Blok MJ, Bonadona V, Bonanni B, Bradbury AR, Brewer C, Buecher B, Buys SS, Caldes T, Caliebe A, Caligo MA, Campbell I, Caputo S, Chiquette J, Chung WK, Claes KB, Collée JM, Cook J, Davidson R, de la Hoya M, De Leeneer K, de Pauw A, Delnatte C, Diez O, Ding YC, Ditsch N, Domchek SM, Dorfling CM, Velazquez C, Dworniczak B, Eason J, Easton DF, Eeles R, Ehrencrona H, Ejlertsen B, Engel C, Engert S, Evans DG, Faivre L, Feliubadaló L, Ferrer SF, Foretova L, Fowler J, Frost D, Galvão HCR, Ganz PA, Garber J, Gauthier-Villars M, Gehrig A, Gerdes AM, Gesta P, Giannini G, Giraud S, Glendon G, Godwin AK, Greene MH, Gronwald J, Gutierrez-Barrera A, Hahnen E, Hauke J, Henderson A, Hentschel J, Hogervorst FB, Honisch E, Imyanitov EN, Isaacs C, Izatt L, Izquierdo A, Jakubowska A, James P, Janavicius R, Jensen UB, John EM, Joseph V, Kaczmarek K, Karlan BY, Kast K, Kim SW, Konstantopoulou I, Korach J, Laitman Y, Lasa A, Lasset C, Lázaro C, Lee A, Lee MH, Lester J, Lesueur F, Liljegren A, Lindor NM, Longy M, Loud JT, Lu KH, Lubinski J, Machackova E, Manoukian S, Mari V, Martínez-Bouzas C, Matrai Z, Mebirouk N, Meijers-Heijboer HE, Meindl A, Mensenkamp AR, Mickys U, Miller A, Montagna M, Moysich KB, Mulligan AM, Musinsky J, Neuhausen SL, Nevanlinna H, Ngeow J, Nguyen HP, Niederacher D, Nielsen HR, Nielsen FC, Nussbaum RL, Offit K, Öfverholm A, Ong KR, Osorio A, Papi L, Papp J, Pasini B, Pedersen IS, Peixoto A, Peruga N, Peterlongo P, Pohl E, Pradhan N, Prajzendanc K, Prieur F, Pujol P, Radice P, Ramus SJ, Rantala J, Rashid MU, Rhiem K, Robson M, Rodriguez GC, Rogers MT, Rudaitis V, Schmidt AY, Schmutzler RK, Senter L, Shah PD, Sharma P, Side LE, Simard J, Singer CF, Skytte AB, Slavin TP, Snape K, Sobol H, Southey M, Steele L, Steinemann D, Sukiennicki G, Sutter C, Szabo CI, Tan YY, Teixeira MR, Terry MB, Teulé A, Thomas A, Thull DL, Tischkowitz M, Tognazzo S, Toland AE, Topka S, Trainer AH, Tung N, van Asperen CJ, van der Hout AH, van der Kolk LE, van der Luijt RB, Van Heetvelde M, Varesco L, Varon-Mateeva R, Vega A, Villarreal-Garza C, von Wachenfeldt A, Walker L, Wang-Gohrke S, Wappenschmidt B, Weber BHF, Yannoukakos D, Yoon SY, Zanzottera C, Zidan J, Zorn KK, Hutten Selkirk CG, Hulick PJ, Chenevix-Trench G, Spurdle AB, Antoniou AC, Nathanson KL. Mutational spectrum in a worldwide study of 29,700 families with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. Hum Mutat 2018; 39:593-620. [PMID: 29446198 PMCID: PMC5903938 DOI: 10.1002/humu.23406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 189] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2017] [Revised: 01/09/2018] [Accepted: 01/19/2018] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The prevalence and spectrum of germline mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 have been reported in single populations, with the majority of reports focused on White in Europe and North America. The Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA) has assembled data on 18,435 families with BRCA1 mutations and 11,351 families with BRCA2 mutations ascertained from 69 centers in 49 countries on six continents. This study comprehensively describes the characteristics of the 1,650 unique BRCA1 and 1,731 unique BRCA2 deleterious (disease-associated) mutations identified in the CIMBA database. We observed substantial variation in mutation type and frequency by geographical region and race/ethnicity. In addition to known founder mutations, mutations of relatively high frequency were identified in specific racial/ethnic or geographic groups that may reflect founder mutations and which could be used in targeted (panel) first pass genotyping for specific populations. Knowledge of the population-specific mutational spectrum in BRCA1 and BRCA2 could inform efficient strategies for genetic testing and may justify a more broad-based oncogenetic testing in some populations.
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- Timothy R. Rebbeck
- Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, 1101 Dana Building, 450 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, 1101 Dana Building, 450 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- The Susanne Levy Gertner Oncogenetics Unit, Institute of Human Genetics, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan 52621, and the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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- Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC 2115 Chicago, IL, USA
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- The Hong Kong Hereditary Breast Cancer Family Registry, Cancer Genetics Center, Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary
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- INBIOMED, Faculty of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires/CONICET and CEMIC, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Medical Direction, Buenos Aires, Paraguay 2155, C1121ABG, Argentina
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- Cancer Research Initiatives Foundation, Sime Darby Medical Centre, 1 Jalan SS12/1A, Subang Jaya, 47500, Malaysia
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Odense University Hospital, Sonder Boulevard 29, Odense C, Denmark
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- Clinical Cancer Genetics, City of Hope, 1500 East Duarte Road, Duarte, California 91010 USA
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, Department of Pathology, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, 1/F Li Shu Fan Block, 2 Village Road, Happy Valley, Hong Kong
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, and Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, University of Utah School of Medicine, 30 North 1900 East, SOM 4B454, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Odense University Hospital, Sonder Boulevard 29, Odense C, Denmark
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- Molecular Oncology Research Center, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, São Paulo, Brazil
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- 1) Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine; 2) Department of Biomedical Science, Seoul National University Graduate School; 3) Cancer Research Center, Seoul National University, 103 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea
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- Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Carrera 7, Bogota, 11001000, Colombia
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- Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Department of Genetics, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X323, Arcadia 0007, South Africa
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Worts Causeway, Cambridge, UK
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- Genetics and Computational Biology Department, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Herston Road, Brisbane, QLD 4006, Australia
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Worts Causeway, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Academic Medical Center, P.O. Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- City of Hope Clinical Cancer Genomics Community Research Network, 1500 East Duarte Road, Duarte, CA 91010, USA
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- Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Chapel Allerton Hospital, Leeds, UK
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- Immunology and Molecular Oncology Unit, Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV - IRCCS, Via Gattamelata 64, Padua, Italy
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Helsinki University Hospital, P.O. BOX 160 (Meilahdentie 2), 00029 HUS, Finland
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- Hereditary Cancer Clinic, Prince of Wales Hospital, High Street, Randwick, NSW 2031 Australia
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X5, Canada; Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
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- Department of Pathology, hus 9, Landspitali-LSH v/Hringbraut, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Breast Medical Oncology and Clinical Cancer Genetics Program, University Of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Pressler Street, CBP 5, Houston, TX, USA
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- Dept of OB/GYN and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Dept of OB/GYN and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Unit of Medical Genetics, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Fondazione IRCCS (Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico) Instituto Nazionale Tumori (INT), Via Giacomo Venezian 1, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Department of Medical Oncology. University Hospital, Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Cancer Prevention and Genetics, Istituto Europeo di Oncologia (IEO), via Ripamonti 435, 20141 Milan, Italy
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Department of Pathology, hus 9, Landspitali-LSH v/Hringbraut, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland and BMC (Biomedical Centre), Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Vatnsmyrarvegi 16, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Worts Causeway, Cambridge, UK
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- Human Genetics Group and Genotyping Unit (CEGEN), Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain. Biomedical Network on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain
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- Dept of OB/GYN, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- The Institute of Oncology, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan 52621, Israel
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- UCSF Cancer Genetics and Prevention Program, San Francisco, CA 94143-1714
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- Clinical Cancer Genetics, City of Hope, 1500 East Duarte Road, Duarte, California 91010 USA
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Maastricht University Medical Center, P.O. Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Unité de Prévention et d’Epidémiologie Génétique, Centre Léon Bérard, 28 rue Laënnec, Lyon, France
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- Division of Cancer Prevention and Genetics, Istituto Europeo di Oncologia (IEO), via Ripamonti 435, 20141 Milan, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK
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- Service de Génétique, Institut Curie, 26, rue d’Ulm, Paris Cedex 05, France
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- Department of Medicine, Huntsman Cancer Institute, 2000 Circle of Hope, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, IdISSC, CIBERONC. Martin Lagos s/n, Madrid, Spain
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Germany
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- Section of Genetic Oncology, Dept. of Laboratory Medicine, University and University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Research Division, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, 305 Gratten Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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- Service de Génétique, Institut Curie, 26, rue d’Ulm, Paris Cedex 05, France
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- CRCHU de Quebec-oncologie, Centre des maladies du sein Deschênes-Fabia, Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement,1050, chemin Sainte-Foy, Québec Canada
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, 1150 St. Nicholas Avenue, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10032 USA
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- Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Gent, Belgium
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Family Cancer Clinic, Erasmus University Medical Center, P.O. Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, South Glasgow University Hospitals, Glasgow, UK
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, IdISSC, CIBERONC. Martin Lagos s/n, Madrid, Spain
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- Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Gent, Belgium
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- Service de Génétique, Institut Curie, 26, rue d’Ulm, Paris Cedex 05, France
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- Unité d'oncogénétique, ICO-Centre René Gauducheau, Boulevard Jacques Monod, 44805 Nantes Saint Herblain Cedex, France
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- Oncogenetics Group, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Clinical and Molecular Genetics Area, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Passeig Vall d'Hebron 119-129, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA USA
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- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Department of Genetics, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X323, Arcadia 0007, South Africa
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- Cáncer Hereditario, Instituto de Biología y Genética Molecular, IBGM, Universidad de Valladolid, Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, UVA-CSIC. Valladolid, Spain
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Worts Causeway, Cambridge, UK
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- Oncogenetics Team, The Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, UK
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Oncology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Blegdamsvej 9, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Worts Causeway, Cambridge, UK
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Division of Tumor Genetics, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University Munich, Germany
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- Genomic Medicine, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, Division of Evolution and Genomic Sciences, University of Manchester, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
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- Centre de Lutte Contre le Cancer Georges François Leclerc, 1 rue Professeur Marion, BP 77 980, Dijon Cedex, France and Genomic and Immunotherapy Medical Institute, Dijon University Hospital, Dijon, France
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- Molecular Diagnostic Unit, Hereditary Cancer Program, ICO-IDIBELL (Catalan Institute of Oncology-Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute), CIBERONC, Gran Via de l'Hospitalet, 199-203. 08908 L'Hospitalet. Barcelona, Spain
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- Laboratoire de Génétique Chromosomique, Hôtel Dieu Centre Hospitalier, BP 1125 Chambéry, France
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, Zluty kopec 7, Brno, 65653, Czech Republic
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- Ohio State University /Columbus Cancer Council, Columbus, OH 43221, USA
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Worts Causeway, Cambridge, UK
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- UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Division of Cancer Prevention & Control Research, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, 650 Charles Young Drive South, Room A2-125 HS, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6900, USA
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- Cancer Risk and Prevention Clinic, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA, USA
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- Centre of Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Department of Medical Genetics, Institute of Human Genetics, University Würzburg, Germany
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- Institut Curie, Department of Tumour Biology, Paris, France; Institut Curie, INSERM U830, Paris, France
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Rigshospitalet 4062, Blegdamsvej 9, København Ø, Denmark
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- Service Régional Oncogénétique Poitou-Charentes, Centre Hospitalier, 79021 Niort
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, University La Sapienza, and Istituto Pasteur - Fondazione Cenci-Bolognetti, viale Regina Elena 291, 00161 Rome, Italy
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- Bâtiment Cheney D, Centre Léon Bérard, 28 rue Laënnec, Lyon, France
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- Ontario Cancer Genetics Network: Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X5, Canada
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard,4019 Wahl Hall East, MS 3040, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA
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- Clinical Genetics Branch, DCEG, NCI, NIH, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Room 6E-454, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Unii Lubelskiej 1, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Breast Medical Oncology and Clinical Cancer Genetics Program, University Of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Pressler Street, CBP 5, Houston, TX, USA
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- Center for Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Center for Integrated Oncology (CIO), Medical Faculty, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Center for Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Center for Integrated Oncology (CIO), Medical Faculty, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- The Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Research Group Netherlands (HEBON), Coordinating center: Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Genetic Medicine, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Leipzig, 04107 Leipzig, Germany
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- Family Cancer Clinic, Netherlands Cancer Institute, P.O. Box 90203, 1006 BE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, 3800 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC, USA
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- Clinical Genetics, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Genetic Counseling Unit, Hereditary Cancer Program, IDIBGI (Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Girona), Catalan Institute of Oncology, CIBERONC, Av. França s/n. 1707 Girona, Spain
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Unii Lubelskiej 1, Szczecin, Poland
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- Parkville Familial Cancer Centre, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, 305 Gratten Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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- Vilnius University Hospital Santariskiu Clinics, Hereditary Cancer Competence Center Hematology, Oncology and Transfusion Medicine Center Room P519 Santariskiu st. 2, LT-08661 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Aarhus University Hospital, Brendstrupgaardsvej 21C, Aarhus N, Denmark
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- Department of Epidemiology, Cancer Prevention Institute of California, 2201 Walnut Avenue, Suite 300, Fremont, CA 94538, USA and Department of Health Research and Policy (Epidemiology) and Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Clinical Genetics Research Laboratory, Dept. of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10044, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Unii Lubelskiej 1, Szczecin, Poland
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- Women's Cancer Program at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Suite 290W, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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- Research Department, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and The Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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- Department of Surgery, Daerim St. Mary's Hospital, 657 Siheung-daero, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, Korea
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- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, INRASTES (Institute of Nuclear and Radiological Sciences and Technology), National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Patriarchou Gregoriou & Neapoleos str., Aghia Paraskevi Attikis, Athens, Greece
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- The Gyneco-Oncology Department, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan 52621, Israel
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- The Susanne Levy Gertner Oncogenetics Unit, Institute of Human Genetics, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan 52621, and the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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- Servicio de Genética-CIBERER U705, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona
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- Unité de Prévention et d’Epidémiologie Génétique, Centre Léon Bérard, 28 rue Laënnec, Lyon, France
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- Molecular Diagnostic Unit, Hereditary Cancer Program, ICO-IDIBELL (Catalan Institute of Oncology-Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute), CIBERONC, Gran Via de l'Hospitalet, 199-203. 08908 L'Hospitalet. Barcelona, Spain
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- The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research 350 Community Drive Manhasset NY
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- Department of Surgery, Soonchunhyang University and Seoul Hospital, 59 Daesagwan-Ro, Yongsan-Gu, Seoul, Korea
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- Women's Cancer Program at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Suite 290W, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Institut Curie, PSL Research University, Mines ParisTech, Inserm U900, 26 rue d'Ulm, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Oncology Radiumhemmet and Institution of Oncology and Patology, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, 13400 E. Scottsdale Blvd., Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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- Oncogénétique, Institut Bergonié, 229 cours de l'Argonne, 33076 Bordeaux, France
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- Clinical Genetics Branch, DCEG, NCI, NIH, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Room 6E-536, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Gynecological Oncology and Clinical Cancer Genetics Program, University Of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Pressler Street, CPB 6, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Unii Lubelskiej 1, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, Zluty kopec 7, Brno, 65653, Czech Republic
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- Unit of Medical Genetics, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Fondazione IRCCS (Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico) Instituto Nazionale Tumori (INT), Via Giacomo Venezian 1, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Centre Antoine Lacassagne, 33 Avenue de Valombrose, Nice, France
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- Laboratorio de Genética Molecular, Servicio de Genética, Hospital Universitario Cruces, BioCruces Health Research Institute, Spain
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- Department of Surgery, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institut Curie, PSL Research University, Mines ParisTech, Inserm U900, 26 rue d'Ulm, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, VU University Medical Center, P.O. Box 7057, 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Division of Tumor Genetics, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University Munich, Germany
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- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Vilnius university Santariskiu hospital, National Center of Pathology, Baublio st. 5, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- NRG Oncology, Statistics and Data Management Center, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm St & Carlton St, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
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- Immunology and Molecular Oncology Unit, Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV - IRCCS, Via Gattamelata 64, Padua, Italy
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Clinical Genetics Research Laboratory, Dept. of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10044, USA
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- Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Biomedicum Helsinki, P.O. BOX 700 (Haartmaninkatu 8), 00029 HUS, Finland
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- Cancer Genetics Service, Division of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Centre Singapore, 11 Hospital Drive, Singapore 169610
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- Institute of Medical Genetics and Applied Genomics, University of Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Odense University Hospital, Sonder Boulevard 29, Odense C, Denmark
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- Center for Genomic Medicine, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Clinical Genetics Research Laboratory, Dept. of Medicine, Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10044, USA
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women’s Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
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- Human Genetics Group, Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain. Biomedical Network on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of Medical Genetics, Department of Biomedical, Experimental and Clinical Sciences, University of Florence, Viale Morgagni 50, 50134 Florence, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Via Santena 19, 10126 Turin, Italy
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- Section of Molecular Diagnostics, Department of Biochemistry, Aalborg University Hospital, Reberbansgade 15, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO Porto), Porto, Portugal, and Biomedical Sciences Institute (ICBAS), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Unii Lubelskiej 1, Szczecin, Poland
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- IFOM, The FIRC (Italian Foundation for Cancer Research) Institute of Molecular Oncology, via Adamello 16, 20139 Milan, Italy
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- Center for Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Center for Integrated Oncology (CIO), Medical Faculty, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Clinical Genetics Research Laboratory, Dept. of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10044, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Unii Lubelskiej 1, Szczecin, Poland
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- Service de Génétique Clinique Chromosomique et Moléculaire, Hôpital Nord, CHU Saint Etienne, St Etienne cedex 2, France
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- Unité d'Oncogénétique, CHU Arnaud de Villeneuve, 34295 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Unit of Molecular Bases of Genetic Risk and Genetic Testing, Department of Research, Fondazione IRCCS (Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico) Istituto Nazionale Tumori (INT), c/o Amaedeolab, via GA Amadeo 42, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- School of Women's and Children's Health, UNSW Sydney, Australia
- The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Karolinska University Hospital L5:03, Stockholm S-171 76, Sweden
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- Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Basic Sciences, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (SKMCH & RC) 7A, Block R3, Johar Town, Lahore, Punjab 54000, Pakistan
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- Center for Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Center for Integrated Oncology (CIO), Medical Faculty, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Clinical Genetics Services, Dept. of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, North Shore University Health System, Clinical Professor, University of Chicago, 2650 Ridge Avenue, Suite 1507 Walgreens, Evanston, IL 60201, USA
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- All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK
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- Vilnius University Hospital Santariskiu Clinics, Centre of Woman's Health and pathology, Department of Gynecology, Santariskiu st. 2, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Center for Genomic Medicine, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Center for Integrated Oncology (CIO), Medical Faculty, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Clinical Cancer Genetics Program, Division of Human Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, The Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Suite 210, 2330 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Westwood, KS, USA
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- North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Genomics Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec Research Center and Laval University, 2705 Laurier Boulevard, Quebec City (Quebec), Canada
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- Dept of OB/GYN and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Aarhus University Hospital, Brendstrupgaardsvej 21C, Aarhus N, Denmark
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- Clinical Cancer Genetics, City of Hope, 1500 East Duarte Road, Duarte, California 91010 USA
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- Medical Genetics Unit, St George's, University of London, UK
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- Département Oncologie Génétique, Prévention et Dépistage, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, 232 boulevard Sainte-Margueritte, Marseille, France
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- Département Oncologie Génétique, Prévention et Dépistage, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, 232 boulevard Sainte-Margueritte, Marseille, France
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- Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA USA
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- Institute of Cell and Molecular Pathology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Unii Lubelskiej 1, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Human Genetics, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
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- National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health Building 50, Room 5312, 50 South Drive, MSC 004, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Dept of OB/GYN, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO Porto), Porto, Portugal, and Biomedical Sciences Institute (ICBAS), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Genetic Counseling Unit, Hereditary Cancer Program, IDIBELL (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute), Catalan Institute of Oncology, CIBERONC, Gran Via de l'Hospitalet, 199-203. 08908 L'Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Magee-Womens Hospital, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Human Genetics and Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Immunology and Molecular Oncology Unit, Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV - IRCCS, Via Gattamelata 64, Padua, Italy
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- Division of Human Genetics, Departments of Internal Medicine and Cancer Biology and Genetics, Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, 460 W. 12 Avenue, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Clinical Genetics Research Laboratory, Dept. of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10044, USA
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- Parkville Familial Cancer Centre, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Unit of Hereditary Cancer, Department of Epidemiology, Prevention and Special Functions, IRCCS (Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico) AOU San Martino - IST Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, largo Rosanna Benzi 10, 16132 Genoa, Italy
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- Fundación Pública Galega Medicina Xenómica, calle Choupana s/n, Edificio de Consultas, Planta menos dos Santiago de Compostal, A Coruña, Spain
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- Departamento de Investigacion y de Tumores Mamarios del Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia, Mexico City; and Centro de Cancer de Mama del Hospital Zambrano Hellion, Tecnologico de Monterrey, San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
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- Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Ulm, Germany
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Unii Lubelskiej 1, Szczecin, Poland
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- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, INRASTES (Institute of Nuclear and Radiological Sciences and Technology), National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Patriarchou Gregoriou & Neapoleos str., Aghia Paraskevi Attikis, Athens, Greece
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- Cancer Research Initiatives Foundation, Sime Darby Medical Centre, 1 Jalan SS12/1A, Subang Jaya, 47500, Malaysia
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- Unit of Medical Genetics, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Fondazione IRCCS (Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico) Instituto Nazionale Tumori (INT), Via Giacomo Venezian 1, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Institute of Oncology, Rivka Ziv Medical Center, 13000 Zefat, Israel
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- Magee-Womens Hospital, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Center for Medical Genetics, NorthShore University HealthSystem,1000 Central St, Suite 620, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Medical Director, Center for Medical Genetics, North Shore University Health System, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, 1000 Central Street, Suite 620, Evanston, IL 60201, USA
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- Genetics and Computational Biology Department, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Herston Road, Brisbane, QLD 4006, Australia
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- Genetics and Computational Biology Department, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Herston Road, Brisbane, QLD 4006, Australia
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Worts Causeway, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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PURPOSE Breast diseases in teenage girls are fortunately uncommon, with most presenting masses being benign. The aim of this study was to evaluate the histopathological results of breast lesions excised from adolescent females less than 19 years of age. METHODS The authors reviewed the medical and pathology records at the University Hospital of Vienna, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, between 1993 and 2006, retrospectively. All data included the patient age, age of menarche, pregnancy, hormonal contraception, family history of breast cancer, size of the breast lesion and its histopathology following surgery. RESULTS Thirty-seven female patients with an average age of 16 years (ranging 12-18 years) were operated on for breast tumor and/or discharge. All tumors were palpable. Six patients had bilateral breast masses; thus, 43 breast lesions were evaluated following surgical excision. Surprisingly, breast cancer was found in two cases. Both patients were diagnosed with a noninvasive ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) within a fibroadenoma at the age of 16. These are the first reported cases of DCIS found in this young age group. As breast neoplasm was found in two cases, a malignancy rate of 4.7% was observed. The most common histologies were fibroadenoma (n=27) and fibrocystic disease (n=4). CONCLUSION The incidence of primary breast cancer in adolescent women is low. However, our experience shows the need for compulsory excision of all breast masses and highlighting the importance of histopathological evaluation of all breast tumors including adolescents.
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- Muy-Kheng M Tea
- Division of Senology, Department of OB/GYN, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria.
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Asseryanis E, Ruecklinger E, Hellan M, Kubista E, Singer CF. Breast cancer size in postmenopausal women is correlated with body mass index and androgen serum levels. Gynecol Endocrinol 2004; 18:29-36. [PMID: 15106362 DOI: 10.1080/09513590310001651759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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Our objective was to investigate the effects of age, weight, body mass index (BMI), sex steroid receptor status and serum parameters such as estradiol, testosterone, androstenedione, dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) and leptin on the size of a malignant breast tumor. A total of 62 premenopausal (median age 44.0 years) and 151 postmenopausal (median age 59.1 years) Caucasian women undergoing lumpectomy or mastectomy for invasive breast cancer were examined. Patient parameters (age, body weight, BMI), tumor parameters (tumor size, estrogen and progesterone receptor status) and serum parameters (estradiol, testosterone, androstenedione, DHEAS and leptin) were measured. An increase of BMI and DHEAS levels was associated with larger tumors by partial correlation (rp) analysis (rp = 0.418, p = 0.008; and rp = 0.329, p = 0.041, respectively), whereas higher androstenedione levels corresponded with smaller tumors. Furthermore, BMI, androstenedione and DHEAS levels were correlated: an increase in DHEAS was associated with higher androstenedione serum concentrations (rp = 0.603, p < 0.001), but was also associated with a lower BMI (rp = -0.378, p < 0.001). BMI and androstenedione serum concentrations were also associated (rp = 0.242, p = 0.009), thus closing a circle of mutual interactions. We conclude that, although breast cancer progression is characterized by autonomous growth that has become independent of growth regulatory mechanisms, tumor size at the time of detection is influenced by a complex system of counter-regulatory feedback mechanisms that might represent the body's physiological attempt to control the size of a malignant tumor.
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- E Asseryanis
- Division of Special Gynecology, Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute of Clinical Experimental Oncology, University of Vienna Medical Center, AKH Wien, Vienna, Austria
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Auerbach L, Rosen AC, Hafner E, Vàclavik I, Obwegeser R, Asseryanis E, Rosen HR, Moroz C. [Placental isoferritin (PLF): early predictor of fetal growth retardation]. Gynakol Geburtshilfliche Rundsch 2000; 39:195-8. [PMID: 10629382 DOI: 10.1159/000022310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Maternal immunoreaction against the embryo can be responsible for fetal growth retardation. The secretion of PLF during pregnancy could be reliable for a diminished immunoreaction of maternal lymphocytes against the embryo. The aim of the present study was to elucidate a possible correlation between PLF and fetal growth retardation. METHODS In this study, blood samples of 402 pregnant women were obtained between the 12th and 16th weeks of gestation. The serum levels of PLF were compared with birth weight, percentile of birth weight, and gestational age. RESULTS Women with children whose birth weight was below or equal to the 10th percentile for gestational age showed significantly lower PLF levels (11.4 U/ml, n = 107) as compared with women whose newborns were of normal weight (19.9 U/ml, n = 295; p < 0.004). CONCLUSION Determination of the PLF level could serve to identify women at risk of having growth-retarded babies.
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- L Auerbach
- Allgemeines Krankenhaus Wien, Universitätsklinik für Frauenheilkunde, Abteilung für Spezielle Gynäkologie, Wien, Osterreich.
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Müller RJ, Asseryanis E, Wieser F, Schurz B. [Reliability of ultrasound pregnancy screening]. Ultraschall Med 1996; 17:163-166. [PMID: 8999514 DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1003173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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This study investigates the reliability of ultrasonographic screenings for detecting fetal malformations in pregnancy. The data from 1505 screening examinations of pregnant women who underwent routine checks at the Department of Obstetrics of the University of Vienna, were compared with the anomalies diagnosed in the newborn of the same collective. Fetal malformations were diagnosed in 28 screening cases. The statistical distribution of these anomalies is shown for the different organ systems. In 5 newborn malformations were found, which had not been diagnosed sonographically. Another 23 newborn had minor malformations in regions that are not included in the routine screening ultrasound. The results show a high accuracy of the sonographic screening examination, with the exception of the median facial region and the large vessels of the base of the heart. The fact that not all of the cardiac malformations were diagnosed prompts the performance of an extended sonographic inspection of the fetal heart within the framework of routine screening.
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Asseryanis E, Wagner TM, Adler A, Deutinger J, Kubista E. A rare case of extra lobar abdominal bronchopulmonary malformation. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 1995; 74:850-1. [PMID: 8533576 DOI: 10.3109/00016349509021213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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- E Asseryanis
- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University of Vienna, Austria
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- E Asseryanis
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Vienna, Austria
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Frigo P, Eppel W, Asseryanis E, Sator M, Golaszewski T, Gruber D, Lang C, Huber J. The effects of hormone substitution in depot form on the uterus in a group of 50 perimenopausal women--a vaginosonographic study. Maturitas 1995; 21:221-5. [PMID: 7616871 DOI: 10.1016/0378-5122(94)00893-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The aim of our study was to examine the effects of hormone replacement on the size of the uterus and the development or increase of myomatas. Fifty perimenopausal women were included in the study (53.8 +/- 5.0 years). Patients received a substitution therapy composed of a combination of 4 mg estradiovalerate and 200 mg prasteronenantate (Gynodian Depot cartridges) given as a muscular injection in 6-10 week intervals (mean 7 weeks +/- 4 days). Prior to the onset of therapy with Gynodian and after a period of 12 months (+/- 13 days) vaginosonography was performed. Measurements taken were length, thickness, height of endometrium, size of ovaries and of myomas. Data obtained were correlated with baseline findings. Within 1 year, significant increases in uterus length from 73.4 mm to 88.2 mm, in uterus thickness from 33.9 mm to 43.5 mm and in endometrium height from 4.1 mm to 6.7 mm were observed (median values). There was an increase in both the number (from 2.2 to 3.5) and the size of the myomatas (29.4-35.0 mm diameter). A statistical analysis conducted by means of the Wilcoxon matched pairs signed-rank sum test showed P < 0.001. No significant change occurred in the size of the ovaries. Our study shows that hormone substitution may have an impact on uterus growth and that therefore vaginosonographical monitoring can be recommended.
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- P Frigo
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Vienna University Hospital, Austria
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Primary pulmonary hypertension is a rare, incurable, and progressive disease. When it is associated with pregnancy, the mortality rises to > 50%. We report a patient who was diagnosed with severe pulmonary hypertension of unknown cause in the twenty-second week of gestation. She was treated with an oral calcium-channel blocker and low-molecular-weight heparin and underwent delivery by cesarean section with good maternal and fetal outcome. Patients with severe pulmonary hypertension should, however, avoid pregnancy because of the high mortality, although cases have been reported with positive outcome.
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- H Kiss
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Vienna, Austria
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Reinold E, Eppel W, Asseryanis E, Frigo P, Schurz B. [Role of the cervix uteri at labor onset from ultrasound studies]. Z Geburtshilfe Perinatol 1994; 198:196-200. [PMID: 7717007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The cervix uteri is of greatest importance for the environment of the fetus. The sonographic imaging of the cervix uteri can be done by transabdominal, perineal and transvaginal route. Each of these methods are associated with specific advantages and disadvantages. During the time of gestation the cervix uteri can be measured sonographically concerning the length, the thickness, the width of the cervical canal and in addition the diameter of the internal and the external os. At the beginning of labour the cervix shows a transformation: a shortening with an increase of thickness. The phase of contraction is followed by a phase of reformation. Individual formations of the cervix regarding the a premature opening of the internal os or the external os could be demonstrable without clinical symptoms. By W. Eppel a score-like formula "Incompetence-Factor" was described for a quantification of these measurements.
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- E Reinold
- Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institut für Entwicklung und Verhalten des Feten
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Küffer E, Asseryanis E, Eppel W, Schurz B, Reinold E. [A case of Patau syndrome. Fetal heart defect and lip-jaw-palate cleft as indicators]. Ultraschall Med 1994; 15:217-218. [PMID: 7973594 DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1003968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Diagnosis of a malformation of the heart and a facial cleft and additionally other abnormalities by means of ultrasound. The result of karyotyping was trisomy 13.
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- E Küffer
- Abteilung für Geburtshilfe und Gynäkologie, Universitätsfrauenklinik Wien
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Reinold E, Asseryanis E, Eppel W, Kudielka I, Küffer E, Schurz B. [Fetal ultrasound--retrospect and prospects]. Ultraschall Med 1994; 15:186-191. [PMID: 7973588 DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1003962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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In a historical review the situation in obstetrics was shown in the last 3 decades. Compound-scans and "real-time-scan" were the fundamental instruments for the first sonographical diagnosis and changes in clinical practice. The demonstration of the foetal body and organs allows numerous measurements of length, areas, and volumes. Signs of foetal vital functions were studied in different aspects. Doppler-flow-measurements in different parts of the foetal circulatory system had brought to light new information. In future especially colour-coded flow measurement will show signs of foetal life such as drinking, vomiting, and urinating and will enable us to study these functions of foetal life.
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- E Reinold
- Abt. f. Geburtshilfe u. Gynäkologie, Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institut für Entwicklung und Verhalten des Feten
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Eppel W, Schurz B, Frigo P, Adler A, Asseryanis E, Kudielka I, Vavra N, Reinold E. [Vaginal sonography of the cervix in twin pregnancies]. Geburtshilfe Frauenheilkd 1994; 54:20-6. [PMID: 8150246 DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1023545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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In a prospective study of 97 uncomplicated twin pregnancies, vaginosonographic cervix measurements of length, thickness and width of the internal os were performed. Furthermore, a group of 113 uncomplicated primipara was measured by vaginosonography. The twin pregnancies were examined sonographically at 4-5 week intervals between the 14th and 34th week of gestation. The results of the measurements were correlated between these two groups in accordance with duration of pregnancy and the number of deliveries. The results showed in general, that the cervical length of multipara-multiple pregnancy is longer than in the primipara-multiple pregnancy. Between the 13th and 17th week of gestation the cervix of primipara showed a length of 48.1 +/- 2.1 mm, the multipara twins showed a length of 52.3 +/- 3.4 mm. Between the 18th and 22nd gestational week, the primipara showed a cervical length of 49.4 +/- 3.6 mm and the multipara a length of 49.6 +/- 2.6 mm. In the 23rd to 27th week, the primipara had a cervical length of 39.4 +/- 2.4 mm, the multipara of 49.3 +/- 3.7 mm. From the 28th to 33rd week, cervical length was reduced in primipara to 31.2 +/- 2.9 mm, and in multipara to 42.7 +/- 5.1 mm. In the normal group of multipara, the cervical length was slightly longer. The assessment of cervical thickness showed the widest cervices in multipara gemini followed by the primipara gemini, the smallest cervices were found in primipara-single pregnancies.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- W Eppel
- I. Universitätsfrauenklinik Wien
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Asseryanis E, Schurz B, Eppel W, Wenzl R, Vavra N, Husslein P. Detection of an atypical invasive mole in an ectopic pregnancy by transvaginal color-flow Doppler. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1993; 169:1656. [PMID: 8267086 DOI: 10.1016/0002-9378(93)90463-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Asseryanis E, Schurz B, Eppel W, Frigo P, Adler A, Husslein P, Reinold E. [Late complication of tubal pregnancy visualized with color Doppler ultrasound. A case report]. Ultraschall Med 1993; 14:180-181. [PMID: 7692595 DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1005242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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An invasive mole in an ectopic pregnancy was diagnosed in the 16th week post amenorrhoea by transvaginal colour flow mapping. Colour flow mapping was the only noninvasive method used to verify the diagnosis. In this case the serum level of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) was very low (0.196 IU/ml) and subjective symptoms and uterine bleeding were absent.
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Schurz B, Wenzl R, Eppel W, Asseryanis E, Reinold E. [Blood flow measurements of neovascularization in tubal pregnancy]. Ultraschall Med 1993; 14:178-179. [PMID: 7692594 DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1005241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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In a retrospective study the results of vagino- and colour flow Doppler sonography of 23 tubal pregnancies verified by surgery were documented. Due to the neovascularisation in the trophoblast tissue the vascular impedance was elevated in all cases. The mean value of all pulsatility indices was 0.85 +/- 0.2. The direct signs of tubal pregnancy were seen in only 20 cases with vaginosonography alone. The combination of vagino- and colour flow Doppler sonography offers the chance of an earlier detection (5th week of pregnancy) of a tubal pregnancy.
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- B Schurz
- I. Universitäts-Frauenklinik Wien
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Eppel W, Schurz B, Frigo P, Kudielka I, Asseryanis E, Reinold E. [Vaginal ultrasound in puerperium. Cervix and lower uterine segment on the 1st p. p. day and uterus 6 weeks post partum]. Z Geburtshilfe Perinatol 1992; 196:217-20. [PMID: 1299085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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In this study it was tried to demonstrate the involution of the puerperal uterus vaginosonographically. A collective of 54 patients with uncomplicated delivery and afebrile, inconspicuous puerperium was vaginosonographically examined on the 1st day postpartum and also 6 weeks post partum. To describe the uterus in its whole entity on the 1st day post partum an abdominal sonography was carried out too. The vaginosonographic examinations showed on the 1st day post partum an average cervical length of 40.7 +/- 8.4 mm, a width of 31.2 +/- 4.0 mm and an internal os of 5.6 +/- 3.0 mm. The width of the lower uterine segment was 15.7 +/- 7.7 mm. The control examination after 6 weeks result in a cervical length of 31.2 +/- 4.0 mm, a width of 28.2 +/- 3.9 mm and an internal os of 3.1 +/- 1.1 mm. The reformation of cervix occurs rapidly and can be seen even on the first day post partum.
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- W Eppel
- I. Universitätsfrauenklinik Wien
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Frigo P, Eppel W, Schurz B, Asseryanis E, Obwegeser R, Huber JC, Reinold E. [Effect of high performance sports on female menstrual cycle exemplified by windsurfing]. Gynakol Geburtshilfliche Rundsch 1992; 32:211-4. [PMID: 1288776 DOI: 10.1159/000271892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Questionnaires were sent to all female members (n = 60) of the Austrian Funboard Association (funboard = the most athletic windsurfing class). They included questions about the menstrual cycle, physical capacity, libido and performance dependent on the particular cycle phase. There was no significant libido or capacity peak, neither for the windsurfers nor for a normal collective (n = 100); on the other hand there was an evident low during menstruation. A mean length of the menstrual cycle of 26.5 +/- 2.8 days and a bleeding time of 4.4 +/- 1.2 days were found, while metrorrhaghia and dysmenorrhea were less frequent than in the normal collective. One reason for these findings could be that physical activity reduces dysmenorrhea.
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- P Frigo
- I. Universitätsfrauenklinik Wien, Osterreich
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