Linkage of familial breast cancer to chromosome 17q21 may not be restricted to early-onset disease.
Lod scores for linkage between familial breast and ovarian cancer and markers on chromosome 17q21 are more frequently positive among families with disease diagnosed at younger ages than they are among older-onset families, suggesting that linkage is restricted to early-onset disease. However, for late-onset cases, the relative probability of sporadic rather than inherited disease is higher than previously suggested. If this correction is made, then later-onset families are much less informative; linkage heterogeneity based on age at onset is no longer significant; and for the sample of families as a whole, linkage is significant at a recombination fraction since demonstrated to be close to the correct local. There is probably more than one gene for inherited breast cancer, but heterogeneity may not be due to age at disease onset.
Margaritte
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Unité de Recherches d'Epidémiologie Génétique, INSERM Unité 155, Château de Longchamp, Paris, France.
Bonaiti-Pellie
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King
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Clerget-Darpoux
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D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics*; D002871:Chromosome Banding; D002886:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D005819:Genetic Markers; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D008126:Lod Score; D008875:Middle Aged; D011336:Probability; D012307:Risk Factors
D005819:Genetic Markers