High Occurrence of BRCA1 Intragenic Rearrangements in Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome in the Czech Republic

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Authors

VAŠÍČKOVÁ Petra MACHÁČKOVÁ Eva LUKEŠOVÁ Miroslava DAMBORSKÝ Jiří HORKÝ Ondřej PAVLŮ Hana KUKLOVÁ jitka KOSINOVÁ Veronika NAVRÁTILOVÁ Marie FORETOVÁ Lenka

Year of publication 2007
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source BMC MEDICAL GENETICS
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Science

Citation
Web http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2350/8/32
Field Oncology and hematology
Keywords High Occurrence of BRCA1 Intragenic Rearrangements in Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome in the Czech Republic
Description Alterations in the highly penetrant cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1 are responsible for the majority of hereditary breast and/or ovarian cancers. However, the number of detected germline mutations has been lower than expected based upon genetic linkage data. Undetected deleterious mutations in the BRCA1 gene in some high-risk families could be due to the presence of intragenic rearrangements as deletions, duplications or insertions spanning whole exons. Standard PCR-based screening methods are mainly focused on detecting point mutations and small insertions/deletions, but large rearrangements might escape detection. The purpose of this study was to determine the type and frequency of large genomic rearrangements in the BRCA1 gene in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer cases in the Czech Republic. Methods
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