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Showing posts with label BRCA 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BRCA 2. Show all posts
Saturday, May 05, 2012

paywalled: Dosage Effect of BRCA1 and BRCA 2 Mutated Allelic Transcript (French Canadian)

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Dosage Effect of BRCA1/2-Mutated Allelic Transcript : We hypothesized that the transcriptome of primary cultures of morphologically normal...
Monday, April 30, 2012

paywalled: Individuals at high-risk for pancreatic cancer development: Management options and the role of surgery (Lynch Syndrome, breast/ovarian BRCA 2....)

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 Blogger's Note: while full access is by subscription only, key words indicate 'high risk' categories not limited to Lynch Synd...
Sunday, August 22, 2010

Protein made by breast cancer gene purified - BRCA 2/RAD51

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Objective To identify risk factors for the presence of a non-invasive lesion of the fallopian tube in women with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation (abstract)

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Objective To identify risk factors for the presence of a non-invasive lesion of the fallopian tube in women with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutat...
Sunday, July 04, 2010

Risk factors for carcinoma of the fallopian tube in women with and without a germline BRCA mutation

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Reminder on stats: < 1.0 is decreased risk; > 1.0 is increased risk; OR=overall risk; edited some stats for ease of reading - see abs...
Saturday, June 12, 2010

Oral contraceptive use and breast or ovarian cancer risk in BRCA1/2 carriers: A meta-analysis

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CONCLUSIONS: OC users carrying an ascertained BRCA1/2 mutation have a reduced risk of ovarian cancer, proportional to the duration of use. ...
Saturday, May 29, 2010

Effect of BRCA2 sequence variants predicted to disrupt exonic splice enhancers on BRCA2 transcripts

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BACKGROUND: Genetic screening of breast cancer patients and their families have identified a number of variants of unknown clinical s...
Friday, May 14, 2010

Teal Toes: Women’s Health Week, Ovarian Cancer media/video - link between breast/ovarian cancers

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Note: no mention of other genetic risks aside from the BRCA's
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Gene link to cancer risk in families - protein RAD51C (news item) breast and ovarian

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Note: this report is worthwhile reading especially for those who test negative for BRCA 1/2 "No significant mutations were found in ...
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Sunday, March 28, 2010

Sleep disturbances in asymptomatic BRCA1/2 mutation carriers: women at high risk for breast-ovarian cancer

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"Fatigue and carrier status were significant predictors of sleep quality, accounting for 15.7% of the variance. In conclusion, asymptom...
Sunday, January 31, 2010

media article: The inherited malignancy of breast cancer (and ovarian cancer)

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Note: good article, albeit complicated subject matter - excerpts of important information:
Friday, January 29, 2010

Genetic Alliance Weighs in On AMP's Desire to Outlaw Gene Patenting GenomeWeb

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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Molecular Cancer | Full text | Methylation and protein expression of DNA repair genes: association with chemotherapy exposure and survival in sporadic ovarian and peritoneal carcinomas

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full free access: Is no news good news? Inconclusive genetic test results in BRCA1 and BRCA2 from patients and professionals' perspectives

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Small study but included view of patients and physician views.