The aim of the study is to investigate the relevance of rs1056663 and rs2708861 HUS1 polymorphisms, and rs104548, rs2981582 and rs2910164 polymorphisms of CASP8, FGFR2 and micro RNA 146A genes, respectively, as risk modifiers in hereditary breast or ovarian cancer (BC/OC) and risk factors in sporadic BC.
To examine whether rs2910164 plays any role in breast and/or ovarian cancer, we studied associations between this polymorphism and age of diagnosis in 42 patients with familial breast cancer and 82 patients with familial ovarian cancer.