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Cancer genetics

• Original article:

  Evaluating the performance of the breast cancer genetic risk models BOADICEA, IBIS, BRCAPRO and Claus for predicting BRCA1/2 mutation carrier probabilities: a study based on 7352 families from the German Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Consortium

  (6 April, 2013)

  Christine Fischer, Karoline Kuchenbäcker, Christoph Engel, Silke Zachariae, Kerstin Rhiem, Alfons Meindl, Nils Rahner, Nicola Dikow, Hansjörg Plendl, Irmgard Debatin, Tiemo Grimm, Dorothea Gadzicki, Ricarda Flöttmann, Judit Horvath, Evelin Schröck, Friedrich Stock, Dieter Schäfer, Ira Schwaab, Christiana Kartsonaki, Nasim Mavaddat, Brigitte Schlegelberger, Antonis C Antoniou, Rita Schmutzler, on behalf of the German Consortium for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer
• Original article:

  Ovarian cancer among 8005 women from a breast cancer family history clinic: no increased risk of invasive ovarian cancer in families testing negative for BRCA1 and BRCA2

  (28 March, 2013)

  Sarah Louise Ingham, Jane Warwick, Iain Buchan, Sarah Sahin, Catherine O'Hara, Anthony Moran, Anthony Howell, D Gareth Evans
• Original article: Risk of thyroid cancer in first-degree relatives of patients with non-medullary thyroid cancer by histology type and age at diagnosis: a joint study from five Nordic countries (13 April, 2013)

  Mahdi Fallah, Eero Pukkala, Laufey Tryggvadottir, Jörgen H Olsen, Steinar Tretli, Kristina Sundquist, Kari Hemminki