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Familial Cancer

Ausgabe 4/2009

Inhalt (41 Artikel)

Patient preferences and National Health Service costs: a cost-consequences analysis of cancer genetic services

Gethin L. Griffith, Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, J. Mark G. Williams, Jonathon Gray, Val Morrison, Clare Wilkinson, Jim Turner, Barbara France, Paul Bennett

The relationship between knowledge of family history and cancer characteristics at diagnosis in women newly-diagnosed with invasive breast cancer

Marijana Lijovic, Susan R. Davis, Pam Fradkin, Jo Bradbury, Maria La China, Max Schwarz, Rory Wolfe, Helen Farrugia, Robin J. Bell

Genetic polymorphism in ornithine decarboxylase and risk of breast cancer

Iain Brown, Susan Halliday, Heather Greig, Steven D. Heys, Heather M. Wallace, Andrew C. Schofield

Analysis of families with Lynch syndrome complicated by advanced serrated neoplasia: the importance of pathology review and pedigree analysis

Michael D. Walsh, Daniel D. Buchanan, Rhiannon Walters, Aedan Roberts, Sven Arnold, Diane McKeone, Mark Clendenning, Andrew R. Ruszkiewicz, Mark A. Jenkins, John L. Hopper, Jack Goldblatt, Jillian George, Graeme K. Suthers, Kerry Phillips, Graeme P. Young, Finlay Macrae, Musa Drini, Michael O. Woods, Susan Parry, Jeremy R. Jass, Joanne P. Young

Open Access

Genetic testing for Lynch syndrome in the first year of colorectal cancer: a review of the psychological impact

Karin M. Landsbergen, Judith B. Prins, Han G. Brunner, Floris W. Kraaimaat, Nicoline Hoogerbrugge

Methylation not a frequent “second hit” in tumors with germline BRCA mutations

Amy M. Dworkin, Andrew D. Spearman, Stephanie Y. Tseng, Kevin Sweet, Amanda Ewart Toland

PALB2 sequence variants in young South African breast cancer patients

Michelle Sluiter, Samantha Mew, Elizabeth J. van Rensburg

First case report of Muir–Torre syndrome associated with non-small cell lung cancer

L. Nolan, D. Eccles, E. Cross, G. Crawford, N. Beck, A. Bateman, C. Ottensmeier

Survey of unaffected BRCA and mismatch repair (MMR) mutation positive individuals

Wendy McKinnon, Kimberly C. Banks, Joan Skelly, Wendy Kohlmann, Robin Bennett, Kristen Shannon, Joy Larson-Haidle, Taka Ashakaga, Jeffrey N. Weitzel, Marie Wood

Protective effect of copy number polymorphism of glutathione S-transferase T1 gene on melanoma risk in presence of CDKN2A mutations, MC1R variants and host-related phenotypes

Valérie Chaudru, M. T. Lo, F. Lesueur, C. Marian, H. Mohamdi, K. Laud, M. Barrois, A. Chompret, M. F. Avril, F. Demenais, B. Bressac-de Paillerets

Characterization of the largest kindred with MEN2A due to a Cys609Ser RET mutation

Caterina Mian, Susi Barollo, Laura Zambonin, Gianmaria Pennelli, Paolo Bernante, Maria Rosa Pelizzo, Davide Nacamulli, Franco Mantero, Maria Elisa Girelli, Giuseppe Opocher

TP53 germline mutations in Portugal and genetic modifiers of age at cancer onset

Carla Pinto, Isabel Veiga, Manuela Pinheiro, Ana Peixoto, Armando Pinto, José M. Lopes, Rui M. Reis, Carla Oliveira, Manuela Baptista, Lúcia Roque, Fernando Regateiro, Luís Cirnes, Robert M. W. Hofstra, Raquel Seruca, Sérgio Castedo, Manuel R. Teixeira

Open Access

Improvement of endometrial biopsy over transvaginal ultrasound alone for endometrial surveillance in women with Lynch syndrome

Lotte H. M. Gerritzen, Nicoline Hoogerbrugge, Angèle L. M. Oei, Fokko M. Nagengast, Maaike A. P. C. van Ham, Leon F. A. G. Massuger, Joanne A. de Hullu

Cancer genetic predisposition: information needs of patients irrespective of risk level

Alison Metcalfe, Julie Werrett, Lucy Burgess, Cyril Chapman, Collette Clifford

A high frequent BRCA1 founder mutation identified in the Greenlandic population

Theresa Larriba Harboe, Hans Eiberg, Peder Kern, Bent Ejlertsen, Lotte Nedergaard, Vera Timmermans-Wielenga, Inge-Merete Nielsen, Marie Luise Bisgaard

Younger age-at-diagnosis for familial malignant testicular germ cell tumor

Phuong L. Mai, Bingshu E. Chen, Kathy Tucker, Michael Friedlander, Kelly-Anne Phillips, David Hogg, Michael A. S. Jewett, Istvan Bodrogi, Lajos Geczi, Edith Olah, Ketil Heimdal, Sophie D. Fosså, Katherine L. Nathanson, Larissa Korde, Douglas F. Easton, Darshna Dudakia, Robert Huddart, Michael R. Stratton, D. Timothy Bishop, Elizabeth A. Rapley, Mark H. Greene

Open Access

Attitude towards pre-implantation genetic diagnosis for hereditary cancer

Chantal Lammens, Eveline Bleiker, Neil Aaronson, Annette Vriends, Margreet Ausems, Maaike Jansweijer, Anja Wagner, Rolf Sijmons, Ans van den Ouweland, Rob van der Luijt, Liesbeth Spruijt, Encarna Gómez García, Mariëlle Ruijs, Senno Verhoef

Mutation screening of VHL gene in a family with malignant bilateral pheochromocytoma: from isolated familial pheochromocytoma to von Hippel-Lindau disease

Shirin Hasani-Ranjbar, Mahsa M. Amoli, Azadeh Ebrahim-Habibi, Vahid Haghpanah, Maryam Hejazi, Akbar Soltani, Bagher Larijani

Haplotypes of the I157T CHEK2 germline mutation in ethnically diverse populations

Bella Kaufman, Yael Laitman, Jacek Gronwald, Robert Winqvist, Arvids Irmejs, Jan Lubinski, Katri Pylkäs, Janis Gardovskis, Edvins Miklasevics, Eitan Friedman

Identification of a de novo BRCA1 mutation in a woman with early onset bilateral breast cancer

Emma Edwards, Catharina Yearwood, Julie Sillibourne, Diana Baralle, Diana Eccles

Are prediction models for Lynch syndrome valid for probands with endometrial cancer?

Floor J. Backes, Heather Hampel, Katherine A. Backes, Luis Vaccarello, George Lewandowski, Jeffrey A. Bell, Gary C. Reid, Larry J. Copeland, Jeffrey M. Fowler, David E. Cohn

Functional characterization of rare missense mutations in MLH1 and MSH2 identified in Danish colorectal cancer patients

Lise Lotte Christensen, Reetta Kariola, Mari K. Korhonen, Friedrik P. Wikman, Lone Sunde, Anne-Marie Gerdes, Henrik Okkels, Carsten A. Brandt, Inge Bernstein, Thomas V. O. Hansen, Rikke Hagemann-Madsen, Claus L. Andersen, Minna Nyström, Torben F. Ørntoft

Open Access

Epitope-positive truncating MLH1 mutation and loss of PMS2: implications for IHC-directed genetic testing for lynch syndrome

Israel Zighelboim, Matthew A. Powell, Sheri A. Babb, Alison J. Whelan, Amy P. Schmidt, Mark Clendenning, Leigha Senter, Stephen N. Thibodeau, Albert de la Chapelle, Paul J. Goodfellow

Low contribution of BRCA1/2 genomic rearrangement to high-risk breast cancer in the Korean population

Moon-Woo Seong, Sung Im Cho, Dong-Young Noh, Wonshik Han, Sung-Won Kim, Chul-Min Park, Hyun-Woong Park, So Yeon Kim, Ji Yeon Kim, Sung Sup Park

Determination of splice-site mutations in Lynch syndrome (hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer) patients using functional splicing assay

Hiromu Naruse, Noriko Ikawa, Kiyoshi Yamaguchi, Yusuke Nakamura, Masami Arai, Chikashi Ishioka, Kokichi Sugano, Kazuo Tamura, Naohiro Tomita, Nagahide Matsubara, Teruhiko Yoshida, Yoshihiro Moriya, Yoichi Furukawa

Association of MUTYH and MSH6 germline mutations in colorectal cancer patients

María Dolores Giráldez, Francesc Balaguer, Trinidad Caldés, Ana Sanchez-de-Abajo, Nuria Gómez-Fernández, Clara Ruiz-Ponte, Jenifer Muñoz, Pilar Garre, Victoria Gonzalo, Leticia Moreira, Teresa Ocaña, Joan Clofent, Angel Carracedo, Montserrat Andreu, Rodrigo Jover, Xavier Llor, Antoni Castells, Sergi Castellví-Bel

A study on MSH2 and MLH1 mutations in hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer families from the Basque Country, describing four new germline mutations

Cristina Martínez-Bouzas, Elena Beristain, Enrique Ojembarrena, Jose Errasti, Karmele Mujika, Noelia Viguera, Maria Isabel Tejada

Germline MLH1 and MSH2 mutations in Italian pancreatic cancer patients with suspected Lynch syndrome

S. Gargiulo, M. Torrini, S. Ollila, S. Nasti, L. Pastorino, R. Cusano, L. Bonelli, L. Battistuzzi, L. Mastracci, W. Bruno, V. Savarino, S. Sciallero, G. Borgonovo, M. Nyström, G. Bianchi-Scarrà, C. Mareni, P. Ghiorzo

The correlation between a family history of colorectal cancer and survival of patients with colorectal cancer

Helgi Birgisson, Arezo Ghanipour, Kennet Smedh, Lars Påhlman, Bengt Glimelius

The prevalence of germ-line TP53 mutations in women diagnosed with breast cancer before age 30

Ophira M. Ginsburg, Mohammad R. Akbari, Zeba Aziz, Robert Young, Henry Lynch, Parviz Ghadirian, Andre Robidoux, Julian Londono, Gonzalo Vasquez, Magda Gomes, Mauricio Magalhaes Costa, Constantine Dimitrakakis, Gustavo Gutierrez, Robert Pilarski, Robert Royer, Steven A. Narod

FAP-associated desmoid invasiveness correlates with in vitro resistance to doxorubicin

David E. Joyner, Sylvia H. Trang, Albert J. Aboulafia, Timothy A. Damron, R. Lor Randall

Molecular study of CEPBA in familial hematological malignancies

R. El Abed, V. Bourdon, L. Huiart, F. Eisinger, A. Khelif, M. Frenay, P. Gesta, L. Demange, H. Dreyfus, V. Bonadona, C. Dugast, H. Zattara, L. Faivre, T. Noguchi, R. Sauvan, Z. Soua, H. Sobol

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