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We thank the participating families who were recruited to the study by the Familial Breast Cancer Collaboration (UK), which includes the following contributors: A. Ardern-Jones, J. Berg, A. Brady, N. Bradshaw, C. Brewer, G. Brice, B. Bullman, J. Campbell, B. Castle, R. Cetnarsryj, C. Chapman, C. Chu, N. Coates, T. Cole, R. Davidson, A. Donaldson, H. Dorkins, F. Douglas, D. Eccles, R. Eeles, F. Elmslie, D.G. Evans, S. Goff, S. Goodman, D. Goudie, J. Gray, L. Greenhalgh, H. Gregory, N. Haites, S.V. Hodgson, T. Homfray, R.S. Houlston, L. Izatt, L. Jeffers, V. Johnson-Roffey, F. Kavalier, C. Kirk, F. Lalloo, I. Locke, M. Longmuir, J. Mackay, A. Magee, S. Mansour, Z. Miedzybrodzka, J. Miller, P. Morrison, V. Murday, J. Paterson, M. Porteous, N. Rahman, M. Rogers, S. Rowe, S. Shanley, A. Saggar, G. Scott, L. Side, L. Snadden, M. Steel, M. Thomas, S. Thomas. We thank A. Hall and E. Mackie for coordination of sample collection. We acknowledge use of DNA from the British 1958 Birth Cohort collection, funded by the Medical Research Council grant G0000934 and the Wellcome Trust grant 068545/Z/02. M. Ahmed and B. North are supported by the US Army Medical Research and Material Command grant #W81XWH-05-1-0204. This research was supported by the Institute of Cancer Research and by grants from the Breast Cancer Campaign and Cancer Research UK.
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Anthony Renwick, Sheila Seal, Patrick Kelly, Tasnim Chagtai, Munaza Ahmed, Bernard North, Hiran Jayatilake, Rita Barfoot, Katarina Spanova, Michael R Stratton & Nazneen Rahman - Cancer Research UK, Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Strangeways Research Laboratories, University of Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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Diana Eccles - Cancer Genome Project, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, Cambridge, UK
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Renwick, A., Thompson, D., Seal, S. et al. ATM mutations that cause ataxia-telangiectasia are breast cancer susceptibility alleles.Nat Genet 38, 873–875 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng1837
- Received: 27 March 2006
- Accepted: 09 June 2006
- Published: 09 July 2006
- Issue Date: 01 August 2006
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ng1837