Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Comprehensive molecular comparison of BRCA1 hypermethylated and BRCA1 mutated triple negative breast cancers

  • Dominik Glodzik,
  • Ana Bosch,
  • Johan Hartman,
  • Mattias Aine,
  • Johan Vallon-Christersson,
  • Christel Reuterswärd,
  • Anna Karlsson,
  • Shamik Mitra,
  • Emma Niméus,
  • Karolina Holm,
  • Jari Häkkinen,
  • Cecilia Hegardt,
  • Lao H. Saal,
  • Christer Larsson,
  • Martin Malmberg,
  • Lisa Rydén,
  • Anna Ehinger,
  • Niklas Loman,
  • Anders Kvist,
  • Hans Ehrencrona,
  • Serena Nik-Zainal,
  • Åke Borg,
  • Johan Staaf

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17537-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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BRCA-deficient breast cancer is characterised by homologous recombination deficiency. Here, the authors show that hypermethylated BRCA1 phenotypically copies mutated BRCA1 in triple negative breast cancers.