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SUBMITTER: Daniele A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7259884 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May-Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Daniele Antonella A Paradiso Angelo Virgilio AV Divella Rosa R Digennaro Maria M Patruno Margherita M Tommasi Stefania S Pilato Brunella B Tufaro Antonio A Barone Michele M Minoia Carla C Colangelo Donatella D Savino Eufemia E Casamassima Porzia P Bruno Eleonora E Oliverio Andreina A Pasanisi Patrizia P
Cancer genomics & proteomics 20200501 3
<h4>Background</h4>Environmental factors may influence the lifetime risk of cancer (penetrance) in women with a BRCA mutation.<h4>Materials and methods</h4>In 89 BRCA-mutant women, affected or unaffected by breast/ovarian cancer, we explored serum levels of adipokines and their relation with the polymorphism SNP276G>T as modulators of BRCA penetrance.<h4>Results</h4>Affected women had significantly lower adiponectin than healthy women. Affected women with rs1501299 TT had significantly lower adi ...[more]