Journal article

Gene-panel sequencing and the prediction of breast-cancer risk

DF Easton, PDP Pharoah, AC Antoniou, M Tischkowitz, SV Tavtigian, KL Nathanson, P Devilee, A Meindl, FJ Couch, M Southey, DE Goldgar, DGR Evans, G Chenevix-Trench, N Rahman, M Robson, SM Domchek, WD Foulkes

New England Journal of Medicine | Published : 2015

Abstract

An international group of cancer geneticists review the level of evidence for the association of gene variants with the risk of breast cancer. It is difficult to draw firm conclusions from the data...

University of Melbourne Researchers

Grants

Awarded by National Cancer Institute


Funding Acknowledgements

Supported by grants from Cancer Research UK (A11174, to Dr. Antoniou), the National Institutes of Health (CA116167, CA176785, and CA192393, to Dr. Couch), the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (to Drs. Couch, Nathanson, and Robson), Susan G. Komen (to Drs. Foulkes, Chenevix-Trench, and Domchek), the Cancer Research Society-Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation (to Dr. Foulkes), the National Health and Medical Research Council (to Dr. Chenevix-Trench), and the Basser Research Center (to Dr. Domchek).