2006
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-6-209
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ATM variants and cancer risk in breast cancer patients from Southern Finland

Abstract: Background: Individuals heterozygous for germline ATM mutations have been reported to have an increased risk for breast cancer but the role for ATM genetic variants for breast cancer risk has remained unclear. Recently, a common ATM variant, ATMivs38 -8T>C in cis with the ATMex39 5557G>A (D1853N) variant, was suggested to associate with bilateral breast cancer among familial breast cancer patients from Northern Finland. We have here evaluated the 5557G>A and ivs38-8T>C variants in an extensive case-control ass… Show more

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“…1-2% of Caucasians are thought to be homozygotes with clinical symptoms of ataxia-telangiectasia (3,11,17,19). The Finnish population reveals a heterozygosity of 37% and homozygosity of 5% (28). A low distribution of the 5557A, on the other hand, was described in African-American, latino, and Japanese population groups (8%, 13-14% and 6%, respectively) (5,14).…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…1-2% of Caucasians are thought to be homozygotes with clinical symptoms of ataxia-telangiectasia (3,11,17,19). The Finnish population reveals a heterozygosity of 37% and homozygosity of 5% (28). A low distribution of the 5557A, on the other hand, was described in African-American, latino, and Japanese population groups (8%, 13-14% and 6%, respectively) (5,14).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The 5557A allele was found to be in strong linkage disequilibrium with the IVS38-8T>C ATM variant (in cis position) in breast and prostate cancer (2,14,15). Other authors, however, did not support any association between these mutations and breast cancer (28). Kim et al described the role of specific haplotypes in the ATM gene in the development of lung cancer in the Korean population (16).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Most of these studies have failed to show an elevated breast cancer risk associated with ATM mutations or polymorphisms (Tommiska et al 2006;Einarsdottir et al 2006).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 93%
“…The selection of these kind of cases increases the likelihood to Wnd susceptibility alleles (Antoniou and Easton 2003). There are however reports that ATM variations are not found more frequently in early onset breast cancer cases (FitzGerald et al 1997) or familial breast cancer cases (Tommiska et al 2006).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…This variant is located in intron 38 of the ATM gene and has been studied in different populations with divergent results concerning its association or not with BC. For instance, in Southern Finland, 20 in a study of two groups of cases, one comprising 786 women with familial BC, the other with 818 patients not selected for familial history, and 708 healthy controls, analyzed this variant and the polymorphism 5557G>A. The result was that neither of these two variants was significantly associated with the risk for BC.…”
Section: Studies In Intronic Variant Ivs38-8t>cmentioning
confidence: 99%