Breast Cancer Research

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Evaluation of unclassified variants in the breast cancer susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 using five methods: results from a population-based study of young breast cancer patients

Eunjung Lee1, Roberta McKean-Cowdin1, Huiyan Ma2, Zhengjia Chen1,3, David Van Den Berg1, Brian E Henderson1, Leslie Bernstein4 and Giske Ursin1,5*

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1441 Eastlake Avenue, USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9175, USA

2 Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Alhambra, CA 91803, USA

3 Children's Oncology Group, Arcadia, CA 91066, USA

4 City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center and Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, CA 91010, USA

5 Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo, Norway

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Breast Cancer Research 2008, 10:R19 doi:10.1186/bcr1865

Published: 19 February 2008

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Word file containing the detailed sequencing procedures and the classification approach integrating sequence conservation and the GMS.

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Word file containing a table listing the protein sequences used for cross-species comparison of BRCA1 and BRCA2.

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Word file containing a table listing all of the BRCA1/BRCA2 variants identified in this study along with our classification of each variant in comparison with the classification according to the BIC database.

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