Hereditary cancer risk assessment: insights and perspectives for the Next-Generation Sequencing era

Abstract Hereditary cancer risk assessment is a multidisciplinary and dynamic process, with the purpose of estimating probabilities of germline mutations in cancer susceptibility genes and assessing empiric risks of cancer based on personal and family histories, in order to offer clinical and molecu...

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Main Authors: Israel Gomy, Maria Del Pilar Estevez Diz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2016-01-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572016005001102&lng=en&tlng=en