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Penetrance of HNPCC-related cancers in a retrolective cohort of 12 large Newfoundland families carrying a MSH2 founder mutation: an evaluation using modified segregation models

Karen A Kopciuk1 email, Yun-Hee Choi2 email, Elena Parkhomenko3 email, Patrick Parfrey4 email, John McLaughlin5,6 email, Jane Green7 email and Laurent Briollais6 email

Division of Population Health Research, Alberta Health Services Board, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Memorial University, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada

Population Studies and Surveillance, Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Discipline of Genetics, Memorial University, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada

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Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice 2009, 7:16doi:10.1186/1897-4287-7-16

Published: 28 October 2009

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Additional file 1:

General hazard specification for parametric regression model. The formulation of the hazard function based on a generalized log-Burr specification of the survival function.

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Additional file 2:

Retrospective Ascertainment-Corrected Likelihood. Details on the derivation of the correction for ascertainment of high risk families.

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