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    Identification of RAD17 as a candidate cancer predisposition gene in families with histories of pancreatic and breast cancers

    Among the 10% of pancreatic cancers that occur in a familial context, around a third carry a pathogenic variant in a cancer predisposition gene. Genetic studies of pancreatic cancer predisposition are limited ...

    Sofie Joris, Philippe Giron, Catharina Olsen, Sara Seneca, Alexander Gheldof in BMC Cancer (2024)

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    Identification of candidate cancer predisposing variants by performing whole-exome sequencing on index patients from BRCA1 and BRCA2-negative breast cancer families

    In the majority of familial breast cancer (BC) families, the etiology of the disease remains unresolved. To identify missing BC heritability resulting from relatively rare variants (minor allele frequency ≤ 1%...

    Rajendra Bahadur Shahi, Sylvia De Brakeleer, Ben Caljon, Ingrid Pauwels in BMC Cancer (2019)