A functionally impaired missense variant identified in French Canadian families implicates FANCI as a candidate ovarian cancer-predisposing gene
Authors: Caitlin T. Fierheller, Laure Guitton-Sert, Wejdan M. Alenezi, Timothée Revil, Kathleen K. Oros, Yuandi Gao, Karine Bedard, Suzanna L. Arcand, Corinne Serruya, Supriya Behl, Liliane Meunier, Hubert Fleury, Eleanor Fewings, Deepak N. Subramanian, Javad Nadaf, Jeffrey P. Bruce, Rachel Bell, Diane Provencher, William D. Foulkes, Zaki El Haffaf, Anne-Marie Mes-Masson, Jacek Majewski, Trevor J. Pugh, Marc Tischkowitz, Paul A. James, Ian G. Campbell, Celia M. T. Greenwood, Jiannis Ragoussis, Jean-Yves Masson, Patricia N. Tonin
Researchers sought to describe how new genes might be associated with ovarian cancer risk amongst 5,249 CARTaGENE participants. They found that a FANCI gene mutation is more common in familial ovarian cancer patients.
