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Familial Cancer

Issue 3/2017

Content (20 Articles)

Original Article

Detection of false positive mutations in BRCA gene by next generation sequencing

Moushumi Suryavanshi, Dushyant Kumar, Manoj Kumar Panigrahi, Meenakshi Chowdhary, Anurag Mehta

Original Article

Outcomes of retesting BRCA negative patients using multigene panels

Siddhartha Yadav, Ashley Reeves, Sarah Campian, Amy Paine, Dana Zakalik

Original Article

Novel and reported pathogenic variants in exon 11 of BRCA2 gene in a cohort of Sri Lankan young breast cancer patients

Sumadee De Silva, Kamani Hemamala Tennekoon, Aravinda Dissanayake, Kanishka De Silva, Lakshika Jayasekara

Original Article

Correlation between germline mutations in MMR genes and microsatellite instability in ovarian cancer specimens

Mohammad R. Akbari, Shiyu Zhang, Deborah Cragun, Ji-Hyun Lee, Domenico Coppola, John McLaughlin, Harvey A. Risch, Barry Rosen, Patricia Shaw, Thomas A. Sellers, Joellen Schildkraut, Steven A. Narod, Tuya Pal

Short Communication

Identification of MSH2 inversion of exons 1–7 in clinical evaluation of families with suspected Lynch syndrome

Maureen E. Mork, Andrea Rodriguez, Melissa W. Taggart, Miguel A. Rodriguez-Bigas, Patrick M. Lynch, Sarah A. Bannon, Y. Nancy You, Eduardo Vilar

Original Article

Gastric tumours in FAP

Sarah-Jane Walton, Ian M. Frayling, Susan K. Clark, Andrew Latchford

Short Communication

Gastric cancer in FAP: a concerning rise in incidence

Gautam Mankaney, Pamela Leone, Michael Cruise, Lisa LaGuardia, Margaret O’Malley, Amit Bhatt, James Church, Carol A. Burke

Original Article

Universal screening for Lynch syndrome among patients with colorectal cancer: patient perspectives on screening and sharing results with at-risk relatives

Jessica Ezzell Hunter, Kathleen A. Arnold, Jennifer E. Cook, Jamilyn Zepp, Marian J. Gilmore, Alan F. Rope, James V. Davis, Kellene M. Bergen, Elizabeth Esterberg, Kristin R. Muessig, Susan K. Peterson, Sapna Syngal, Louise Acheson, Georgia Wiesner, Jacob Reiss, Katrina A. B. Goddard

Open Access Short Communication

The hereditary nature of small cell carcinoma of the ovary, hypercalcemic type: two new familial cases

Leora Witkowski, Nancy Donini, Rebecca Byler-Dann, James A. Knost, Steffen Albrecht, Andrew Berchuck, W. Glenn McCluggage, Martin Hasselblatt, William D. Foulkes

Short Communication

Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma in a patient with a heterozygous frameshift variant in the DICER1 gene and additional manifestations of the DICER1 syndrome

Julia Fremerey, Stefan Balzer, Triantafyllia Brozou, Joerg Schaper, Arndt Borkhardt, Michaela Kuhlen

Short Communication

ATM mutations for surgeons

Sara A. Mansfield, Robert Pilarski, Doreen M. Agnese

Original Article

Mutation screening of ACKR3 and COPS8 in kidney cancer cases from the CONFIRM study

Maryam Mahmoodi, Tu Nguyen-Dumont, Fleur Hammet, Bernard J. Pope, Daniel J. Park, Melissa C. Southey, John M. Darlow, Fiona Bruinsma, Ingrid Winship

Short Communication

A lesson from a reported pathogenic variant in Peutz-Jeghers syndrome: a case report

Hu Tan, Xianda Wei, Pu Yang, Yanru Huang, Haoxian Li, Desheng Liang, Lingqian Wu

Original Article

Psychosocial morbidity in TP53 mutation carriers: is whole-body cancer screening beneficial?

Kate A. McBride, Mandy L. Ballinger, Timothy E. Schlub, Mary-Anne Young, Martin H. N. Tattersall, Judy Kirk, Ros Eeles, Emma Killick, Leslie G. Walker, Sue Shanley, David M. Thomas, Gillian Mitchell

Open Access Original Article

Baseline results from the UK SIGNIFY study: a whole-body MRI screening study in TP53 mutation carriers and matched controls

Sibel Saya, Emma Killick, Sarah Thomas, Natalie Taylor, Elizabeth K. Bancroft, Jeanette Rothwell, Sarah Benafif, Alexander Dias, Christos Mikropoulos, Jenny Pope, Anthony Chamberlain, Ranga Gunapala, Louise Izatt, Lucy Side, Lisa Walker, Susan Tomkins, Jackie Cook, Julian Barwell, Vicki Wiles, Lauren Limb, Diana Eccles, Martin O. Leach, Susan Shanley, Fiona J. Gilbert, Helen Hanson, David Gallagher, Bala Rajashanker, Richard W. Whitehouse, Dow-Mu Koh, S. Aslam Sohaib, D. Gareth Evans, Rosalind A. Eeles

Original Article

Biallelic BRCA2 mutations in two black South African children with Fanconi anaemia

Candice Feben, Careni Spencer, Anneline Lochan, Nakita Laing, Karen Fieggen, Engela Honey, Tasha Wainstein, Amanda Krause

Original Article

Supporting disclosure of genetic information to family members: professional practice and timelines in cancer genetics

Benjamin Derbez, Antoine de Pauw, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Sandrine de Montgolfier

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