[Because the cumulative risk of breast cancer at age 70 years among familial patient cases for CHEK2*1100delC heterozygotes is almost as high as that for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation heterozygotes, genotyping for CHEK2*1100delC should be considered together with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation screening in women with a family history of breast cancer.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE