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Correction to: Prevalence of RECQL germline variants in Pakistani early-onset and familial breast cancer patients

Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice volume 19, Article number: 4 (2021) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 20 December 2020

Correction to: Hered Cancer Clin Pract 18, 25 (2020)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13053-020-00159-6

Following publication of the original article [1], a typesetting error was identified. Figure 1 was not published in full. The complete Fig. 1 is given in this correction article and the original article [1] has been corrected.

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Pedigrees of breast cancer patients with RECQL variants. a Family 282 carrying the pathogenic variant p.W75*. b-d Families 565, 649, and 625 carrying the VUS p.I141F, p.S182S, and p.C475C, respectively. e-g Families 471, 577 and 595 carrying the benign variant c.868-2A > G. Circles are females, squares are males, and a diagonal slash indicates a deceased individual. Symbols with filled left upper quadrant: unilateral breast cancer. Symbols with filled right lower quadrant: cancer other than breast, the name of that cancer is indicated. Double line between spouses: consanguineous marriage. Identification numbers of individuals are below the symbols. The index patient is indicated by an arrow. BC: breast cancer. The numbers following these abbreviations indicate age at cancer diagnosis. +: carrier, −: non-carrier

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  1. Rashid MU, Muhammad N, Khan FA, et al. Prevalence of RECQL germline variants in Pakistani early-onset and familial breast cancer patients. Hered Cancer Clin Pract. 2020;18:25. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13053-020-00159-6.

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  1. Department of Basic Sciences Research, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (SKMCH&RC), 7A, Block R3, Johar Town, Lahore, Punjab, 54000, Pakistan

    Muhammad Usman Rashid, Noor Muhammad, Faiz Ali Khan, Umara Shehzad & Humaira Naeemi

  2. Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    Muhammad Usman Rashid & Ute Hamann

  3. Department of Zoology, Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan

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Rashid, M.U., Muhammad, N., Khan, F.A. et al. Correction to: Prevalence of RECQL germline variants in Pakistani early-onset and familial breast cancer patients. Hered Cancer Clin Pract 19, 4 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13053-020-00163-w

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