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Is BRCA2 c.9079 G > A a predisposing variant for early onset breast cancer?

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The Australian Breast Cancer Family Study was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, the New South Wales Cancer Council, the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (Australia), and the US National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, under Request for Application CA-95-003 as part of the Breast Cancer Family Registries (CFRs), and through cooperative agreements with the Fox Chase Cancer Center; Huntsman Cancer Institute, Columbia University; Northern California Cancer Center; Cancer Care Ontario; and The University of Melbourne.

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  1. Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, Department of Pathology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Fleur Hammet, Jessica George, Andrea A. Tesoriero, Christopher Schroen, Letitia Smith, Anke Grabosch-Meehan & Melissa C. Southey

  2. Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Mark A. Jenkins, Gillian Dite & John L. Hopper

  3. The University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Margaret R. E. McCredie

  4. Cancer Epidemiology Centre, Cancer Council Victoria, Victoria, Australia

    Graham G. Giles

  5. International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

    Sean V. Tavtigian & Melissa C. Southey

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Hammet, F., George, J., Tesoriero, A.A. et al. Is BRCA2 c.9079 G > A a predisposing variant for early onset breast cancer?. Breast Cancer Res Treat 109, 177–179 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-007-9624-6

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