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ArticleBreast disease2011

Breast cancer predisposition and brain hemispheric laterality specification likely share a common genetic cause.

Amar J S Klar

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Article in Breast disease, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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10citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. Left-right analysis of mammary gland development in retinoid X receptor-α+/- mice.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016
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  5. From cytoskeletal dynamics to organ asymmetry: a nonlinear, regulative pathway underlies left-right patterning.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016
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  6. Genetic factors and breast cancer laterality.Cancer management and research · 2014
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  7. Micropatterning of cells reveals chiral morphogenesis.Stem cell research & therapy · 2013
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  8. Can bronchoscopic airway anatomy be an indicator of autism?Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2013
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Amar J S KlarDevelopmental Genetics Section, Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD, USA. klara@mail.nih.gov
National Cancer Institute · US

Funding

Studies on SilencingZIABC010381 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI KLAR, AMAR J · 2009 to 2016
$3.6M
Studies on mat1 ImprintingZIABC010385 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI KLAR, AMAR J · 2009 to 2016
$3.6M
HUMAN HANDEDNESS STUDIESZ01BC010386 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI KLAR, AMAR J · 2000 to 2008
$846k
STUDIES ON SILENCINGZ01BC010381 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI KLAR, AMAR J · 2000 to 2008
$602k
STUDIES ON MAT1 ON IMPRINTINGZ01BC010385 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI KLAR, AMAR J · 2000 to 2008
$602k
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 BC010381Intramural NIH HHS Z01 BC010385Intramural NIH HHS Z01 BC010386
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The majority of breast cancer cases seen in women remain unexplained by simple Mendelian genetics. It is generally hypothesized that such non-familial, so-called sporadic cases, result from exposure of the affected individuals to a cancer-causing environment and/or from stochastic cell biological errors. Clearly, adverse environment exposure can cause disease, but is that necessarily the cause of most sporadic cases? Curiously, female breast cancer patients who were selected to prefer right-hand-use reportedly exhibited a higher incidence of reversed-brain hemispheric laterality when compared to that of the public at large. Notably, such a higher level of hemispheric reversal is also found in healthy, left-handed or ambidextrous persons. Based on the association between these disparate traits, a new hypothesis for the etiology of sporadic breast cancer cases is advanced here; breast cancer predisposition and brain laterality development likely share a common genetic cause.

Indexed as

Breast NeoplasmsDominance, CerebralFemaleFunctional LateralityGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseHumans

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PMID21965306
PMCPMC6959526
OpenAlexW2147782937

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