Next Generation Sequencing Reveals High Prevalence of BRCA1 and BRCA2 Variants of Unknown Significance in Early-Onset Breast Cancer in African American Women
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15315013 |
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| Authors | Luisel Ricks‐Santi (0000-0003-2987-9509, Hampton University, corresponding author), Luisel Ricks-Santi, J Tyson McDonald (0000-0003-4300-6827, Hampton University), Bert Gold (National Cancer Institute), Michael Dean (0000-0003-2234-0631, National Cancer Institute), Nicole Thompson (0000-0001-5850-3880, Howard University), Muneer Abbas (0000-0002-8686-2626, Howard University), Bradford Wilson (Howard University), Yasmine Kanaan (0000-0003-4606-9794, Howard University), Tammey Naab (0000-0003-0710-4809, Howard University), Tammey J Naab, Georgia M Dunston (Howard University), Georgia Dunston |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 169-169 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnicity & Disease (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-510X • E-ISSN: 1945-0826 |
| Publisher | Ethnicity & Disease, Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.18865/ed.27.2.169 |
| PMID | 28439188 |
| OpenAlex | W2607452581 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Knowing a patient's BRCA mutation status is important for prevention and treatment decision-making. Improving the characterization of mutations will lead to better management, treatment, and BCa prevention efforts in African Americans who are disproportionately affected with aggressive BCa and may inform future precision medicine genomic-based clinical studies
Biology · Breast cancer · Cancer · Population · BRCA gene mutations in cancer · Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research · Medicine · Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease · Genetics · Internal Medicine · Oncology
| Highly cited | No |
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