Clinical case study meets population cohort: Identification of a BRCA1 pathogenic founder variant in Orcadians

Acknowledgements The study team wish to thank staff from the NHS Grampian genetics team and the ORCADES Study for their contribution to these datasets, in particular, Barbara Gibbons for genetic counselling of family members, the NHS Grampian genomics laboratory team for finding and testing for the variant in the clinically ascertained cases, and Laura Taylor of NHS Grampian and the Public Health Scotland genealogy team for assembling the clinical pedigree. ORCADES DNA extractions were performed at the Edinburgh Clinical Research Facility, University of Edinburgh. ORCADES Sanger sequencing was performed by Camilla Drake and the technical services team at the MRC HGU. Emily Weiss and Reka Nagy assembled the ORCADES pedigree using records at the General Register Office and study information, building on earlier pedigree work by Ruth McQuillan and Jim Wilson (45). Regeneron Genetics Center performed the exome sequencing. We thank Thibaud Boutin for phasing the GSA chip data and Kiera Johnston for help with analysis of other cancer susceptibility genes. The data in the EHR was provided by patients and collected by the NHS as part of their care and support. The authors acknowledge the support of the eDRIS Team (Public Health Scotland) for their involvement in obtaining approvals, provisioning and linking this data. We would also like to acknowledge the invaluable contributions of the research nurses in Orkney and the administrative team in Edinburgh. Finally and most importantly, we thank the people of Orkney for their involvement in and ongoing support for our research. Funding: This work was funded by the MRC University Unit award to the MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh, MC_UU_00007/10. LK was supported by an RCUK Innovation Fellowship from the National Productivity Investment Fund (MR/R026408/1). ORCADES was supported by the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government (CZB/4/276 and CZB/4/710), a Royal Society URF to JFW and Arthritis Research UK.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Review of Particle Physics, 2002-2003

This biennial Review summarizes much of Particle Physics. Using data from previous editions, plus 2205 new measurements from 667 papers, we list, evaluate, and average measured properties of gauge bosons, leptons, quarks, mesons, and baryons. We also summarize searches for hypothetical particles such as Higgs bosons, heavy neutrinos, and supersymmetric particles. All the particle properties and search limits are listed in Summary Tables. We also give numerous tables, figures, formulae, and reviews of topics such as the Standard Model, particle detectors, probability, and statistics. This edition features expanded coverage of CP violation in B mesons and of neutrino oscillations. For the first time we cover searches for evidence of extra dimensions (both in the particle listings and in a new review). Another new review is on Grand Unified Theories. A booklet is available containing the Summary Tables and abbreviated versions of some of the other sections of this full Review. All tables, listings, and reviews (and errata) are also available on the Particle Data Group website: http://pdg.lbl.gov