germline variants in early-onset breast cancer patients from hereditary breast and ovarian cancer families.

, located 470 kb downstream of , encodes for the nuclear PSMC3-interacting protein, which functions as co-activator of steroid hormone-mediated gene expression, and is involved in RAD51 and DMC1-mediated homologous recombination during DNA repair of double-strand breaks. Recently, germline variants in have been identified in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) patients, mainly in cases with early-onset. We screened a cohort of 166 mutation-negative HBOC patients, of which 56 developed early-onset breast cancer before the age of 36 years, for variants.

Familial thrombocytosis caused by the novel germ-line mutation p.Pro106Leu in the MPL gene.

Familial thrombosis (FT) has been described as a rare autosomal-dominant disorder, mostly caused by activating mutations of the thrombopoietin gene (THPO). Other cases of FT have been linked to one of two different germline mutations in the myeloproliferative leukaemia virus oncogene gene (MPL), which codes for the thrombopoietin receptor MPL. We studied an Arab family with two siblings with severe thrombocytosis by linkage analysis and obtained evidence for linkage to MPL.