Common Genetic Variants and Modification of Penetrance of BRCA2-Associated Breast Cancer

Mia M. Gaudet*, Tomas Kirchhoff, Todd Green, Joseph Vijai, Joshua M. Korn, Candace Guiducci, Ayellet V. Segre, Kate McGee, Lesley McGuffog, Christiana Kartsonaki, Jonathan Morrison, Sue Healey, Olga M. Sinilnikova, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Sylvie Mazoyer, Marion Gauthier-Villars, Hagay Sobol, Michel Longy, Marc Frenay, Frans B. L. HogervorstMatti A. Rookus, Margriet J. Collee, Nicoline Hoogerbrugge, Kees E. P. van Roozendaal, Marion Piedmonte, Wendy S. Rubinstein, Stacy R. Nerenstone, Linda Van Le, Stephanie V. Blank, Trinidad Caldes, Miguel De La Hoya, Heli Nevanlinna, Kristiina Aittomaki, Conxi Lazaro, Ignacio Blanco, Adalgeir Arason, Oskar T. Johannsson, Rosa B. Barkardottir, Peter Devilee, Olofunmilayo I. Olopade, Susan L. Neuhausen, Xianshu Wang, Zachary S. Fredericksen, Paolo Peterlongo, Siranoush Manoukian, Monica Barile, Alessandra Viel, Paolo Radice, Catherine M. Phelan, Steven A. Narod, Gad Rennert, Flavio Lejbkowicz, Anath Flugelman, Irene L. Andrulis, Gord Glendon, Hilmi Ozcelik, Amanda E. Toland, Marco Montagna, Emma D'Andrea, Eitan Friedman, Yael Laitman, Ake Borg, Mary S. Beattie, Susan J. Ramus, Susan M. Domchek, Katherine L. Nathanson, Tim Rebbeck, Amanda B. Spurdle, Xiaoqing Chen, Helene Holland, Esther M. John, John L. Hopper, Saundra Buys, Mary B. Daly, Melissa C. Southey, Mary Beth Terry, Nadine Tung, Thomas van Overeem Hansen, Finn C. Nielsen, Mark I. Greene, Phuong L. Mai, Ana Osorio, Mercedes Duran, Raquel Andres Conejero, Javier Benitez, Jeffrey N. Weitzel, Judy Garber, Ute Hamann, Susan Peock, Margaret Cook, Clare Oliver, Debra Frost, Radka Platte, D. Gareth Evans, Fiona Lalloo, Ros Eeles, Louise Izatt, Lisa Walker, Jacqueline Eason, Julian Barwell, Andrew K. Godwin, Rita K. Schmutzler, Barbara Wappenschmidt, Stefanie Engert, Norbert Arnold, Dorothea Gadzicki, Michael Dean, Bert Gold, Robert J. Klein, Fergus J. Couch, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Douglas F. Easton, Mark J. Daly, Antonis C. Antoniou, David M. Altshuler, Encarna Gomez Garcia, Kenneth Offit

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Abstract

The considerable uncertainty regarding cancer risks associated with inherited mutations of BRCA2 is due to unknown factors. To investigate whether common genetic variants modify penetrance for BRCA2 mutation carriers, we undertook a two-staged genome-wide association study in BRCA2 mutation carriers. In stage 1 using the Affymetrix 6.0 platform, 592,163 filtered SNPs genotyped were available on 899 young (
Original languageEnglish
Article number1001183
JournalPlos Genetics
Volume6
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2010

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