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Population-based estimates of age-specific cumulative risk of breast cancer for pathogenic variants in ATM.

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Authors

Renault, Anne-Laure 
Dowty, James G 
Steen, Jason A 
Li, Shuai 
Winship, Ingrid M 

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Multigene panel tests for breast cancer predisposition routinely include ATM as it is now a well-established breast cancer predisposition gene. METHODS: We included ATM in a multigene panel test applied to the Australian Breast Cancer Family Registry (ABCFR), a population-based case-control-family study of breast cancer, with the purpose of estimating the prevalence and penetrance of heterozygous ATM pathogenic variants from the family data, using segregation analysis. RESULTS: The estimated breast cancer hazard ratio for carriers of pathogenic ATM variants in the ABCFR was 1.32 (95% confidence interval 0.45-3.87; P = 0.6). The estimated cumulative risk of breast cancer to age 80 years for heterozygous ATM pathogenic variant carriers was estimated to be 13% (95% CI 4.6-30). CONCLUSIONS: Although ATM has been definitively identified as a breast cancer predisposition gene, further evidence, such as variant-specific penetrance estimates, are needed to inform risk management strategies for carriers of pathogenic variants to increase the clinical utility of population testing of this gene.

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Keywords

Short Report, ATM, Breast cancer predisposition, Genetic risk factors, Age-specific cumulative risk, Penetrance

Journal Title

Breast Cancer Res

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Journal ISSN

1465-5411
1465-542X

Volume Title

24

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Sponsorship
National Institutes of Health (RO1CA159868, UM1CA164920)
National Breast Cancer Foundation (ECF-17-001)
National Health and Medical Research Council (GNT1155163)
National Health and Medical Research Council (GNT1074383, GNT1101400)
NBCF (NT-15-016)