A new study led by colleagues at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, including our clinical geneticist colleague, Dr. Georgia Wiesner, evaluated 23 hereditary cancer genes and found 19 new gene associations including 7 new associations with cancer and 12 new associations with noncancer diseases. The associations with cancer versus other conditions is included in the table. …
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A new study evaluated 23 hereditary cancer genes and found 19 new gene associations, including 7 new associations with cancer and 12 new associations with non-neoplastic diseases. Specifically, the below genes were found to have an increased risk of disease:APC: benign liver/bile duct tumors, gastritis, and duodenitisATM: stomach cancer and pancreatic cancerBRCA1/2: ovarian cystsCHEK2: leukemia …
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It has long been established that the risk for developing leukemia in childhood is high among individuals with Li-Fraumeni Syndrome; however, better understanding the characteristics of leukemia among these individuals is important to guide treatment approaches. In a study of children with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL), those with a germline TP53 mutation (compared to those …
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