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ReviewHereditary cancer in clinical practice2016

PALB2: research reaching to clinical outcomes for women with breast cancer.

Melissa C Southey, Ingrid Winship, Tú Nguyen-Dumont

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Review in Hereditary cancer in clinical practice, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Melissa C SoutheyGenetic Epidemiology Laboratory, Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010 Australia.
Ingrid WinshipDepartment of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010 Australia ; The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, VIC 3050 Australia.
Tú Nguyen-DumontGenetic Epidemiology Laboratory, Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010 Australia.
University of Melbourne · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PALB2 has taken its place with bona fide breast cancer susceptibility genes. It is now well established that women who carry loss-of-function mutations in the PALB2 gene are at similarly elevated breast cancer risks to those who carry mutations in BRCA2. Information about PALB2 is now being used in breast cancer clinical genetics practice and is routinely included in breast cancer predisposition gene panel tests. Tens of thousands of women worldwide have now had genetic tests for PALB2 mutations in the context of breast cancer susceptibility. However, prospective data related to the clinical outcomes of PALB2 mutation carriers is lacking and very little information (beyond mutation penetrance) is available to guide current clinical management for carriers (affected and unaffected by cancer). In addition, clinical classification of the vast array of non-loss-of-function genetic variants identified in PALB2 is in its infancy. These are key areas of current research efforts and are important foundations on which to move information about PALB2 into the precision public health arena.

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Breast cancer susceptibilityCancer susceptibilityFamilial cancerPALB2

Identifiers

PMID27099641
PMCPMC4837522
OpenAlexW2339037154

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