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01-12-2011 | Erratum
Erratum to: Association of the germline TP53 R337H mutation with breast cancer in southern Brazil
Authors:
Juliana G Assumpção, Ana Luíza Seidinger, Maria José Mastellato, Raul C Ribeiro, Gerard P Zambetti, Ramapriya Ganti, Kumar Srivastava, Sheila Shurtleff, Deqing Pei, Luiz Carlos Zeferino, Rozany M Dufloth, Silvia Regina Brandalise, José Andres Yunes
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BMC Cancer
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Issue 1/2011
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Of the 123 patients included in our work [
1], 44 were selected according to the following familial risk history criteria: early onset (less than 35 years of age); bilateral carcinoma; more than three cases of breast cancer and more than one case of ovarian cancer in the family; more than two first degree relatives involved; and male breast cancer. We regret that in the methods section of our manuscript [
1], it was erroneously stated both that the number of patients with familial history was 45 and that the criteria used for their selection was: "had either more than three cases of breast cancer and more than one case of ovarian cancer in the family; or had more than two first-degree relatives with breast cancer; or had one case of male breast cancer" (only two out of these 44 patients would have fulfilled these criteria). …
