A locus on 19p13 modifies risk of breast cancer in BRCA1 mutation carriers and is associated with hormone receptor-negative breast cancer in the general population.

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Published in Nat Genet on September 19, 2010

Authors

Antonis C Antoniou1, Xianshu Wang, Zachary S Fredericksen, Lesley McGuffog, Robert Tarrell, Olga M Sinilnikova, Sue Healey, Jonathan Morrison, Christiana Kartsonaki, Timothy Lesnick, Maya Ghoussaini, Daniel Barrowdale, EMBRACE, Susan Peock, Margaret Cook, Clare Oliver, Debra Frost, Diana Eccles, D Gareth Evans, Ros Eeles, Louise Izatt, Carol Chu, Fiona Douglas, Joan Paterson, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Claude Houdayer, Sylvie Mazoyer, Sophie Giraud, Christine Lasset, Audrey Remenieras, Olivier Caron, Agnès Hardouin, Pascaline Berthet, GEMO Study Collaborators, Frans B L Hogervorst, Matti A Rookus, Agnes Jager, Ans van den Ouweland, Nicoline Hoogerbrugge, Rob B van der Luijt, Hanne Meijers-Heijboer, Encarna B Gómez García, HEBON, Peter Devilee, Maaike P G Vreeswijk, Jan Lubinski, Anna Jakubowska, Jacek Gronwald, Tomasz Huzarski, Tomasz Byrski, Bohdan Górski, Cezary Cybulski, Amanda B Spurdle, Helene Holland, kConFab, David E Goldgar, Esther M John, John L Hopper, Melissa Southey, Saundra S Buys, Mary B Daly, Mary-Beth Terry, Rita K Schmutzler, Barbara Wappenschmidt, Christoph Engel, Alfons Meindl, Sabine Preisler-Adams, Norbert Arnold, Dieter Niederacher, Christian Sutter, Susan M Domchek, Katherine L Nathanson, Timothy Rebbeck, Joanne L Blum, Marion Piedmonte, Gustavo C Rodriguez, Katie Wakeley, John F Boggess, Jack Basil, Stephanie V Blank, Eitan Friedman, Bella Kaufman, Yael Laitman, Roni Milgrom, Irene L Andrulis, Gord Glendon, Hilmi Ozcelik, Tomas Kirchhoff, Joseph Vijai, Mia M Gaudet, David Altshuler, Candace Guiducci, SWE-BRCA, Niklas Loman, Katja Harbst, Johanna Rantala, Hans Ehrencrona, Anne-Marie Gerdes, Mads Thomassen, Lone Sunde, Paolo Peterlongo, Siranoush Manoukian, Bernardo Bonanni, Alessandra Viel, Paolo Radice, Trinidad Caldes, Miguel de la Hoya, Christian F Singer, Anneliese Fink-Retter, Mark H Greene, Phuong L Mai, Jennifer T Loud, Lucia Guidugli, Noralane M Lindor, Thomas V O Hansen, Finn C Nielsen, Ignacio Blanco, Conxi Lazaro, Judy Garber, Susan J Ramus, Simon A Gayther, Catherine Phelan, Stephen Narod, Csilla I Szabo, MOD SQUAD, Javier Benitez, Ana Osorio, Heli Nevanlinna, Tuomas Heikkinen, Maria A Caligo, Mary S Beattie, Ute Hamann, Andrew K Godwin, Marco Montagna, Cinzia Casella, Susan L Neuhausen, Beth Y Karlan, Nadine Tung, Amanda E Toland, Jeffrey Weitzel, Olofunmilayo Olopade, Jacques Simard, Penny Soucy, Wendy S Rubinstein, Adalgeir Arason, Gad Rennert, Nicholas G Martin, Grant W Montgomery, Jenny Chang-Claude, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Hiltrud Brauch, GENICA, Gianluca Severi, Laura Baglietto, Angela Cox, Simon S Cross, Penelope Miron, Sue M Gerty, William Tapper, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, George Fountzilas, Peter A Fasching, Matthias W Beckmann, Isabel Dos Santos Silva, Julian Peto, Diether Lambrechts, Robert Paridaens, Thomas Rüdiger, Asta Försti, Robert Winqvist, Katri Pylkäs, Robert B Diasio, Adam M Lee, Jeanette Eckel-Passow, Celine Vachon, Fiona Blows, Kristy Driver, Alison Dunning, Paul P D Pharoah, Kenneth Offit, V Shane Pankratz, Hakon Hakonarson, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Douglas F Easton, Fergus J Couch

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

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