Yukiko Inagaki-Kawata et al. report an analysis of germline variants in breast cancer susceptibility genes in 1,995 Japanese breast cancer patients. They find that 5.1% of the patients carry germline variants in cancer-linked genes and investigate the characteristics of patients with germline mutations in BRCA1/2.
- Yukiko Inagaki-Kawata
- Kenichi Yoshida
- Masakazu Toi