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    • Increased frequency of germline BRCA2 mutations associates with prostate cancer metastasis in a racially diverse patient population.
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    • Awareness and acceptability of population-based screening for pathogenic BRCA variants: Do race and ethnicity matter?
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    • BRCA1 and BRCA2 Pathogenic Sequence Variants in Women of African Origin or Ancestry.
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    • Layers of information: interacting constraints on breast cancer risk-management by high-risk African American women.
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    • Psychosocial impact of BRCA testing in young Black breast cancer survivors.
    • Gonzalez BD, Hoogland AI, Kasting ML, Cragun D, Kim J, Ashing K, Holt CL, Hughes Halbert C, Pal T, Vadaparampil ST.
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    • Unusual recurrence of breast cancer in a BRCA-variant patient after fat grafting.
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    • A Devastatingly "Minor" Relationship Between Male Breast Cancer and Prostate Cancer.
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    • Surgeon attitude impacts rate of genetic testing after a breast cancer diagnosis.
    • [No author given]
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    • Association of Attending Surgeon With Variation in the Receipt of Genetic Testing After Diagnosis of Breast Cancer.
    • Katz SJ, Bondarenko I, Ward KC, Hamilton AS, Morrow M, Kurian AW, Hofer TP.
    • JAMA Surg. 2018 Oct 1;153(10):909-916. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2018.2001.

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    • Prospective Study of Cancer Genetic Variants: Variation in Rate of Reclassification by Ancestry.
    • Slavin TP, Van Tongeren LR, Behrendt CE, Solomon I, Rybak C, Nehoray B, Kuzmich L, Niell-Swiller M, Blazer KR, Tao S, Yang K, Culver JO, Sand S, Castillo D, Herzog J, Gray SW, Weitzel JN.
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    The Ancestral Pace of Variant Reclassification.

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    • Kurian AW, Ward KC, Hamilton AS, Deapen DM, Abrahamse P, Bondarenko I, Li Y, Hawley ST, Morrow M, Jagsi R, Katz SJ.
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    • Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Risk Genes Identified by Multigene Hereditary Cancer Panel Testing.
    • Shimelis H, LaDuca H, Hu C, Hart SN, Na J, Thomas A, Akinhanmi M, Moore RM, Brauch H, Cox A, Eccles DM, Ewart-Toland A, Fasching PA, Fostira F, Garber J, Godwin AK, Konstantopoulou I, Nevanlinna H, Sharma P, Yannoukakos D, Yao S, Feng BJ, Tippin Davis B, Lilyquist J, Pesaran T, Goldgar DE, Polley EC, Dolinsky JS, Couch FJ.
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    • Dash C, Taylor TR, Makambi KH, Hicks J, Hagberg JM, Adams-Campbell LL.
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    • A survey of microRNA single nucleotide polymorphisms identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci in a case-control, population-based study of African-American women.
    • Bensen JT, Graff M, Young KL, Sethupathy P, Parker J, Pecot CV, Currin K, Haddad SA, Ruiz-Narváez EA, Haiman CA, Hong CC, Sucheston-Campbell LE, Zhu Q, Liu S, Yao S, Bandera EV, Rosenberg L, Lunetta KL, Ambrosone CB, Palmer JR, Troester MA, Olshan AF.
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    • Reproductive history, breast-feeding and risk of triple negative breast cancer: The Breast Cancer Etiology in Minorities (BEM) study.
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    • Reported Biologic Differences in Breast Cancer by Race Due to Disparities in Screening.
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    • Characteristics of African American women at high-risk for ovarian cancer in the southeast: Results from a Gynecologic Cancer Risk Assessment Clinic.
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