Abstract

Breast cancer is a leading cause of death in women but extremely rare in men. A previous population-based cohort study found significant evidence for an elevated incidence of breast and ovarian cancers among female first degree relatives of men with breast cancer. Using an extension of logistic regressive models, we analyzed data on 842 first degree relatives and 131 wives of 153 male probands with breast cancer, to determine whether, after allowing for multifactorial familial correlations, single locus segregation could be the cause of this elevated incidence of female breast and ovarian cancers. We found evidence for a rare dominant Mendelian gene, perhaps BRCA2, segregating in these families and leading to early onset of breast and/or ovarian cancers. ?

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
Type
Biotechnology Resource Grants (P41)
Project #
5P41RR003655-14
Application #
6206079
Study Section
Project Start
1999-09-01
Project End
2000-08-31
Budget Start
1998-10-01
Budget End
1999-09-30
Support Year
14
Fiscal Year
1999
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
Case Western Reserve University
Department
Type
DUNS #
077758407
City
Cleveland
State
OH
Country
United States
Zip Code
44106

  Publications

Elston, Robert C; Satagopan, Jaya; Sun, Shuying (2017) Statistical Genetic Terminology. Methods Mol Biol 1666:1-9
Thota, Prashanthi N; Zackria, Shamiq; Sanaka, Madhusudhan R et al. (2017) Racial Disparity in the Sex Distribution, the Prevalence, and the Incidence of Dysplasia in Barrett's Esophagus. J Clin Gastroenterol 51:402-406
Liang, Jingjing; Cade, Brian E; Wang, Heming et al. (2016) Comparison of Heritability Estimation and Linkage Analysis for Multiple Traits Using Principal Component Analyses. Genet Epidemiol 40:222-32
Wang, Chuchu; Wu, Manman; Qian, Jin et al. (2016) Identification of rare variants in TNNI3 with atrial fibrillation in a Chinese GeneID population. Mol Genet Genomics 291:79-92
Lemas, Dominick J; Klimentidis, Yann C; Aslibekyan, Stella et al. (2016) Polymorphisms in stearoyl coa desaturase and sterol regulatory element binding protein interact with N-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid intake to modify associations with anthropometric variables and metabolic phenotypes in Yup'ik people. Mol Nutr Food Res 60:2642-2653
Day, Kenneth; Waite, Lindsay L; Alonso, Arnald et al. (2016) Heritable DNA Methylation in CD4+ Cells among Complex Families Displays Genetic and Non-Genetic Effects. PLoS One 11:e0165488
Justice, Cristina M; Bishop, Kevin; Carrington, Blake et al. (2016) Evaluation of IRX Genes and Conserved Noncoding Elements in a Region on 5p13.3 Linked to Families with Familial Idiopathic Scoliosis and Kyphosis. G3 (Bethesda) 6:1707-12
Petrovic, Dusan; Pivin, Edward; Ponte, Belen et al. (2016) Sociodemographic, behavioral and genetic determinants of allostatic load in a Swiss population-based study. Psychoneuroendocrinology 67:76-85
Greer, Katarina B; Falk, Gary W; Bednarchik, Beth et al. (2015) Associations of Serum Adiponectin and Leptin With Barrett's Esophagus. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 13:2265-72
Alwan, Heba; Ehret, Georg; Ponte, Belen et al. (2015) Heritability of ambulatory and office blood pressure in the Swiss population. J Hypertens 33:2061-7

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