Paternal lineage early onset hereditary ovarian cancers: A Familial Ovarian Cancer Registry study.

Given prior evidence that an affected woman conveys a higher risk of ovarian cancer to her sister than to her mother, we hypothesized that there exists an X-linked variant evidenced by transmission to a woman from her paternal grandmother via her father. We ascertained 3,499 grandmother/granddaughte...

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Main Authors: Kevin H Eng, J Brian Szender, John Lewis Etter, Jasmine Kaur, Samantha Poblete, Ruea-Yea Huang, Qianqian Zhu, Katherine A Grzesik, Sebastiano Battaglia, Rikki Cannioto, John J Krolewski, Emese Zsiros, Peter J Frederick, Shashikant B Lele, Kirsten B Moysich, Kunle O Odunsi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-02-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5813894?pdf=render