Breast-cancer risk in families with mutations in PALB2

Antonis C Antoniou¹, Silvia Casadei, Tuomas Heikkinen+45

• ¹From the Departments of Public Health and Primary Care (A.C.A., D.B., A.L., D.F.E.) and Oncology (D.F.E.), Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology (D.F.E.), and Department of Medical Genetics and National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (M.T.), University of Cambridge, and the Department of Clinical Genetics, East Anglian Regional Genetics Service, Addenbrooke's Hospital (J.R., D.S., M.T.), Cambridge, and the Oncogenetics Team, Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden National Health Service Foundation Trust, London (C.T., S.S., N.R.) - all in the United Kingdom; the Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle (S.C., M.-C.K.); the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital (T.H., S.K., H.N.), and the Department of Clinical Genetics, Helsinki University Central Hospital (K.A.), Helsinki, the Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Department of Clinical Chemistry and Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, and the Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Northern Finland Laboratory Center NordLab, Oulu University Hospital (K.P., R.W.), and the Department of Clinical Genetics, University of Oulu and Oulu University Hospital (J.S.M.), Oulu, Biocenter Kuopio and Cancer Center of Eastern Finland, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio (A.M.), and the Institute of Biomedical Technology-Cancer Genomics, University of Tampere, Tampere (A.K.) - all in Finland; the Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium (K.D.L., B.P., K.B.M.C.); the Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, Institute of Nuclear and Radiologic Sciences and Technology, Energy and Safety, National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos, Athens (F.F., D.Y.); the Department of Genetics, Eastern Ontario Regional Genetics Program, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa (E.T.), Samuel Lunenfeld Research