This thesis describes a study on the impact of selected nutrients, growth hormones and in vivo genome stability on breast cancer risk in BRCA1 or BRCA2 germline mutation carriers. Peripheral blood lymphocyes of BRCA germline mutation carriers and healthy non-carrier controls were studied for the impact of folic acid deficiency on genome damage and the methionine-dependence phenotype (MDP; in combination with common polymorphisms in one-carbon metabolism) on breast cancer risk, respectively. Plasma IGF-1 and IGFBP-3 were determined and chromosome 17 aneuploidy and Her2 amplification were assessed in mononucleated lymphocytes to establish the association of these markers on breast cancer risk in BRCA germline mutation carriers, independently or in combination with plasma folate, vitamin B12, homocysteine, selenium and common gene variants in the one-carbon metabolism, DNA repair genes or glutathionine S-transferase.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/201911 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Beetstra, Alexandra Johanna |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | EN-AUS |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | Copyright Alexendra Beetstra 2006 |
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