Bar-Mashiah, Ariel
Soper, Emily R.
Cullina, Sinead
Belbin, Gillian M.
Kenny, Eimear E.
Lucas, Aimee L.
Abul-Husn, Noura S. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5179-1944
Funding for this research was provided by:
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
American Cancer Society
National Human Genome Research Institute
Article History
Received: 28 September 2020
Accepted: 8 April 2021
First Online: 22 April 2021
Declarations
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: Dr. Abul-Husn was previously employed by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and has received a speaker honorarium from Genentech. E.E.K. has received speaker honoraria from Illumina and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. The remaining authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.
: The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s Institutional Review Board approved this study (protocol number 18-1771), including a waiver of informed consent and a HIPAA waiver of authorization. The study population consisted of 30,223 participants aged 18 years or older from Mount Sinai’s Bio<i>Me</i> Biobank (protocol number 07-0529). This study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: All participants of the Mount Sinai Bio<i>Me</i> Biobank provided written informed consent.
: All expected pathogenic variants in <i>CDH1</i> are reported in this paper. Exome sequencing and genotyping of Bio<i>Me</i> was performed in collaboration with the Regeneron Genetics Center. Individual-level data generated via this collaboration are not publicly available due to the terms of the Bio<i>Me</i> biospecimen and data access agreement but may be requested directly from the corresponding author.