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Ovarian cancer pathology characteristics as predictors of variant pathogenicity in BRCA1 and BRCA2

Abstract

BackgroundThe distribution of ovarian tumour characteristics differs between germline BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variant carriers and non-carriers. In this study, we assessed the utility of ovarian tumour characteristics as predictors of BRCA1 and BRCA2 variant pathogenicity, for application using the American College of Medical Genetics and the Association for Molecular Pathology (ACMG/AMP) variant classification system.MethodsData for 10,373 …

Authors

O’Mahony DG; Ramus SJ; Southey MC; Meagher NS; Hadjisavvas A; John EM; Hamann U; Imyanitov EN; Andrulis IL; Sharma P

Journal

British Journal of Cancer, Vol. 128, No. 12, pp. 2283–2294

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

June 29, 2023

DOI

10.1038/s41416-023-02263-5

ISSN

0007-0920