http://www.kconfab.org Kathleen Cuningham Foundation Consortium for research into Familial Breast cancer http://www.kconfab.org/Progress/Update.shtml Collection summary up to 16 Feb 2010. http://www.kconfab.org/Documents/Mantra_flyer_2010.pdf First announcement for next year's annual clinical and scientific meeting combining kConFab, ABCFS, ACCFS, AOCS and the FCCs. 17th-20th August 2010 Mantra on Salt Beach, Kingscliff. http://www.kconfab.org/Progress/Update.shtml Collection summary up to 24 Nov 2009. http://www.kconfab.org/Progress/Mutations.aspx http://www.kconfab.org/Progress/Update.shtml http://www.kconfab.org/Progress/Mutations.aspx http://www.kconfab.org/Progress/Publications.shtml Antoniou, A.C., Sinilnikova, O.M., McGuffog, L., Healey, S., Nevanlinna, H., Heikkinen, T., Simard, J., Spurdle, A.B., Beesley, J., Chen, V., The Kathleen Cuningham Foundation Consortium for Research into Familial Breast Cancer, Neuhausen, S.L., Ding, Y.C., Couch, F.J., Wang,X., Fredericksen, Z., Peterlongo, P., Peissel, B., Bonanni, B., Viel, A., Bernard, L., Radice, P., Szabo, C.I., Foretova, L., Zikan, M., Claes, K., . 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Hansen, T., Bjork Barkardottir, R., Kirchhoff, T., Pal, P., Kosarin, K., Offit, K., Piedmonte, M., Rodriguez, G.C., Wakeley, K., Boggess, J.F., Basil, J., Schwartz, P.E., Blank, S.V., Toland, A.E., Montagna, M., Casella, C., Imyanitov, E.N., Allavena, A., Schmutzler, R.K., Versmold, B., Engel, C., Meindl, A. Ditsch, N., Arnold, N., Niederacher, D., Deißler, H., Fiebig, B., Suttner, C., Schönbuchner, I., Gadzicki, D., Caldes, T., de la Hoya, M., Pooley, K.A., Easton D.F. and Chenevix-Trench, G. on behalf of CIMBA. Common variants in LSP1, 2q35 and 8q24 and breast cancer risk for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. Human Molecular Genetics 2009 Aug 5. [Epub ahead of print] http://www.kconfab.org/Progress/Publications.shtml Sinilnikova, O., Antoniou, A.C., Simard, J., Healey, S., Léoné, M., Sinnett, D., Spurdle, A.B., Beesley, J., Chen, X., kConFab, Greene, M.H., Loud, J.T., Lejbkowicz, F., Rennert, G., Dishon, S., . Andrulis, I.L., OCGN, Domchek, S.M. Nathanson, K.L., Manoukian, S., Radice, P., Konstantopoulou, I., Blanco, A., Laborde, A.L., Durán, M., Osorio, A., Benitez, J., Hamann, U., Hogervorst, F.B.L., van Os, T.A.M., Gille, H.J.P., HEBON, Peock, S., Cook, M., Luccarini, C., Evans, D.G., Lalloo, F., Eeles, R., Pichert, G., Davidson, R., Cole, T., Cook, J., Paterson, J., Brewer, C., EMBRACE, Hughes, D.J., Coupier, I., Giraud, S., Coulet, F., Colas, C., Soubrier, F., Rouleau, E., Bièche, I., Lidereau, R., Demange, L., Nogues, C., Lynch, H.T., GEMO, Schmutzler, R.K., Versmold, B., Engel, C., Meindl, A., Arnold, N., Sutter, C., Deissler, H., Schaefer, D., Froster, U.G., GC-HBOC, Aittomäki, K., Nevanlinna, H., McGuffog, L., Easton, D., Chenevix-Trench, G., Stoppa-Lyonnet, D. on behalf of the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2. The TP53 Arg72Pro and MDM2 309G>T polymorphisms are not associated with breast cancer risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. 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A combined meeting of kConFab, Australian Breast Cancer Family Study, Australasian Colorectal Cancer Family Study, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study, Family Cancer Clinics of Australia and New Zealand and kConFab. http://www.kconfab.org/Progress/Publications.shtml Kiely, B.E., Jenkins, M.A., McKinley, J.M., Friedlander, M.L., Weideman, P., Milne, R., McLachlan, S-J., Hopper, J.L., Phillip, K-A. Contralateral Risk-Reducing Mastectomy in BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers and other High-Risk Women in the Kathleen Cuningham Foundation Consortium for Research into Familial Breast Cancer (kConFab). Breast Cancer Research and Treatment (in press) http://www.kconfab.org/Progress/Publications.shtml Yan, M., kConFab Investigators and Fox, S.B. Does cyclin D1 discriminate between BRCA2 and BRCAX breast cancers? Histopathology (in press) http://www.kconfab.org/Progress/Publications.shtml Rayoo M, Yan M, Takano EA, kConFab Investigators, Bates GJ, Brown PJ, Banham AH, Fox SB. 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