The Majority Of 22 Dutch High-Risk Breast Cancer Families Are Due To Either Brca1 Or Brca2
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS(1996)
摘要
We have analyzed, by a combination of mutation and linkage analysis, the genetic basis of 22 breast cancer families in which at least 4 cases of either breast cancer diagnosed under the age of 60 or ovarian cancer had occurred, Chain-terminating mutations in BRCA1 were evidenced in 6 families, and posterior probabilities of >0.90 of being linked to BRCA1 in 3, The breast versus ovarian cancer ratio in these 9 families was approximately 2:1. Among the remaining 13 families, significant linkage to markers flanking BRCA2 was established in the admixture test with a maximum multipoint lod score of 3.38, but there was no statistical evidence for genetic heterogeneity. The breast:ovarian cancer ratio in these families was 7:1, suggesting BRCA2 confers a much lower risk for ovarian cancer than does BRCA1. These results suggest that BRCA2 will explain a significant proportion of hereditary breast cancer in the Netherlands, and, together with BRCA1, account for the majority of all high-risk families.
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breast cancer,BRCA1,BRCA2,genetic heterogeneity
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