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Heiko Becher

University Medical Center Hamburg-EppendorfORCID 0000-0002-8808-6667Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Genetic & Genomic Medicine· 2 Genetics· 2

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Organism:human· 4 Approach:statistical model· 4 Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 2 Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Research Focus:variant effect prediction· 1 Assay:whole-exome sequencing· 1

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Anna González‐NeiraiD· 4 shared Javier J. BeniteziD· 4 shared Jenny C. Chang-ClaudeiD· 4 shared Joe DennisiD· 4 shared Jose Esteban CastelaoiD· 4 shared Manjeet K. BollaiD· 4 shared Manuela Gago-DomíngueziD· 4 shared Pascal GuéneliD· 4 shared

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Genetic & Genomic MedicinemedRxivPreprintJun 17, 2022

Exome sequencing identifies novel susceptibility genes and defines the contribution of coding variants to breast cancer risk.

Naomi Wilcox, Martine Dumont, Anna González‐Neira…·Jacques Simard

The paper uses whole-exome sequencing data to identify novel breast cancer susceptibility genes and assess the contribution of coding variants to breast cancer risk.

1 citation

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Genetic & Genomic MedicineGenome MedicinePeer-reviewedMay 18, 2022

Breast cancer risks associated with missense variants in breast cancer susceptibility genes

Leila Dorling, Sara Carvalho, Jamie Allen…·Javier J. Benitez

The paper assesses breast cancer risks linked to rare missense variants in five susceptibility genes using logistic and mixture models, finding varying risk contributions across genes.

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GeneticsBreast Cancer ResearchPeer-reviewedJan 4, 2022

Common variants in breast cancer risk loci predispose to distinct tumor subtypes

Thomas U. Ahearn, Haoyu Zhang, Kyriaki Michailidou…·Peter T. Simpson

The paper identifies breast cancer risk variants associated with tumor subtypes and shows their differential effects on luminal and non-luminal subtypes.

33 citations

humanGWAS summary statistics

GeneticsNature GeneticsPeer-reviewedMay 18, 2020

Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses

Haoyu Zhang, Thomas U. Ahearn, Julie Lecarpentier…·Peter Hillemanns

This study identifies 32 new breast cancer susceptibility loci through GWAS, with associations varying by tumor subtype and genetic correlations among subtypes.

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