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Analysis Of Cancer Risk And Brca1 And Brca2 Mutation Prevalence In The Kconfab Familial Breast Cancer Resource, Graham J. Mann, Heather Thorne, Rosemary L. Balleine, Phyllis N. Butow, Christine L. Clarke, Edward Edkins, Gerda M. Evans, Sián Fereday, Eric Haan, Michael Gattas, Graham G. Giles, Jack Goldblatt, John L. Hopper, Judy Kirk, Jennifer A. Leary, Geoffery Lindeman, Eveline Niedermayr, Kelly_Anne Phillips, Sandra Picken, Gulietta M. Pupo, Christobel Saunders, Clare L. Scott, Amanda B. Spurdle, Graeme Suthers, Kathy Tucker, Georgia Chenevix-Trench
Analysis Of Cancer Risk And Brca1 And Brca2 Mutation Prevalence In The Kconfab Familial Breast Cancer Resource, Graham J. Mann, Heather Thorne, Rosemary L. Balleine, Phyllis N. Butow, Christine L. Clarke, Edward Edkins, Gerda M. Evans, Sián Fereday, Eric Haan, Michael Gattas, Graham G. Giles, Jack Goldblatt, John L. Hopper, Judy Kirk, Jennifer A. Leary, Geoffery Lindeman, Eveline Niedermayr, Kelly_Anne Phillips, Sandra Picken, Gulietta M. Pupo, Christobel Saunders, Clare L. Scott, Amanda B. Spurdle, Graeme Suthers, Kathy Tucker, Georgia Chenevix-Trench
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Introduction The Kathleen Cuningham Foundation Consortium for Research into Familial Breast Cancer (kConFab) is a multidisciplinary, collaborative framework for the investigation of familial breast cancer. Based in Australia, the primary aim of kConFab is to facilitate high-quality research by amassing a large and comprehensive resource of epidemiological and clinical data with biospecimens from individuals at high risk of breast and/or ovarian cancer, and from their close relatives. Methods Epidemiological family history and lifestyle data, as well as biospecimens, are collected from multiple-case breast cancer families ascertained through family cancer clinics in Australia and New Zealand. We used the Tyrer-Cuzick algorithms …