Publications by authors named "A Sokolenko"

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  • * A case study reported an incidental finding of BS through routine DNA testing in breast cancer patients, revealing a woman who appeared healthy for 38 years before her breast cancer diagnosis.
  • * The woman's mild BS symptoms were confirmed through genetic testing, emphasizing the need for including BLM in gene panels for cancer-related DNA testing to identify undiagnosed patients.
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Background: Nineteen genomic regions have been associated with high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC). We used data from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium (OCAC), Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of (CIMBA), UK Biobank (UKBB), and FinnGen to identify novel HGSOC susceptibility loci and develop polygenic scores (PGS).

Methods: We analyzed >22 million variants for 398,238 women.

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Background: Mountain areas of the North Caucasus host several large ethnic communities that have preserved their national identity over the centuries.

Methods: This study involved high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) and breast cancer (BC) patients from Dagestan (HGSOC: 37; BC: 198), Kabardino-Balkaria (HGSOC: 68; BC: 155), North Ossetia (HGSOC: 51; BC: 104), Chechnya (HGSOC: 68; BC: 79), Ingushetia (HGSOC: 19; BC: 103), Karachay-Cherkessia (HGSOC: 13; BC: 47), and several Armenian settlements (HGSOC: 16; BC: 101). The group of BC patients was enriched by young-onset and/or family history-positive and/or bilateral and/or receptor triple-negative cases.

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Introduction: Tubo-ovarian carcinomas (OCs) are highly sensitive to platinum-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) but almost never demonstrate complete pathologic response.

Methods: We analyzed paired primary and residual tumor tissues from 30 patients with hereditary BRCA1/2-driven OCs (BRCA1: 17; BRCA2: 13), who were treated by carboplatin/paclitaxel NACT (median number of cycles: 3, range: 3-6). BRCA1/2 and TP53 genes were analyzed by the next-generation sequencing.

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