Comprehensive molecular comparison of BRCA1 hypermethylated and BRCA1 mutated triple negative breast cancers

BRCA-deficient breast cancer is characterised by homologous recombination deficiency. Here, the authors show that hypermethylated BRCA1 phenotypically copies mutated BRCA1 in triple negative breast cancers.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dominik Glodzik, Ana Bosch, Johan Hartman, Mattias Aine, Johan Vallon-Christersson, Christel Reuterswärd, Anna Karlsson, Shamik Mitra, Emma Niméus, Karolina Holm, Jari Häkkinen, Cecilia Hegardt, Lao H. Saal, Christer Larsson, Martin Malmberg, Lisa Rydén, Anna Ehinger, Niklas Loman, Anders Kvist, Hans Ehrencrona, Serena Nik-Zainal, Åke Borg, Johan Staaf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17537-2