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Wendy McKinnon
Researcher at University of Vermont
Publications - 49
Citations - 5153
Wendy McKinnon is an academic researcher from University of Vermont. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genetic testing & Genetic counseling. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 46 publications receiving 4745 citations. Previous affiliations of Wendy McKinnon include Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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Endoglin, a TGF-β binding protein of endothelial cells, is the gene for hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia type 1
Kimberly A. McAllister,Grogg Km,Darren W. Johnson,Carol J. Gallione,Melanie A. Baldwin,Charles E. Jackson,Charles E. Jackson,E A Helmbold,Dorene S. Markel,Wendy McKinnon,Jill R. Murrell +10 more
TL;DR: Endoglin is identified as the HHT gene mapping to 9q3 and HHT is established as the first human disease defined by a mutation in a member of the TGF-β receptor complex.
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Founder and Recurrent CDH1 Mutations in Families With Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer
Pardeep Kaurah,Andrée MacMillan,Niki Boyd,Janine Senz,Alessandro De Luca,Nicki Chun,Gianpaolo Suriano,Sonya Zaor,Lori Van Manen,Cathy Gilpin,Sarah M. Nikkel,Mary Connolly-Wilson,Scott M. Weissman,Wendy S. Rubinstein,Courtney Sebold,Robert M. Greenstein,Jennifer Stroop,Dwight Yim,Benoit Panzini,Wendy McKinnon,Marc S. Greenblatt,Debrah Wirtzfeld,Daniel Fontaine,Daniel G. Coit,Sam S. Yoon,Daniel C. Chung,Gregory Y. Lauwers,Antonio Pizzuti,Carlos A. Vaccaro,Maria Ana Redal,Carla Oliveira,Marc Tischkowitz,Sylviane Olschwang,Steven Gallinger,Henry T. Lynch,Jane Green,James M. Ford,Paul D.P. Pharoah,Bridget A. Fernandez,Bridget A. Fernandez,David G. Huntsman +40 more
TL;DR: Recurrent CDH1 mutations in families with hereditary diffuse gastric cancer are due to both independent mutational events and common ancestry, and the presence of a founder mutation from Newfoundland is strongly supported.
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International variation in rates of uptake of preventive options in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.
Kelly A. Metcalfe,Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli,Jan Lubinski,Jacek Gronwald,Henry T. Lynch,Pål Møller,Parviz Ghadirian,William D. Foulkes,Jan Klijn,Eitan Friedman,Eitan Friedman,Charmaine Kim-Sing,Peter Ainsworth,B. Rosen,Susan M. Domchek,T Wagner,Nadine Tung,Siranoush Manoukian,Fergus J. Couch,Ping Sun,Steven A. Narod,M. Daly,Howard M. Saal,Kevin Sweet,Dominique Stoppa Lyonnet,A. Eisen,G. Rennen,J. McLennan,Ruth Gershoni-Baruch,Judy Garber,Shelly Cummings,J. N. Weitzel,Beth Y. Karlan,Raluca N. Kurz,Wendy McKinnon,Marie E. Wood,Dawna Gilchrist,Albert E. Chudley,Michael P. Osborne,David A. Fishman,W. S. Meschino,Edmond G. Lemire,Christine Maugard,Gordon B. Mills,Sofia D. Merajver,Daniel Rayson,J. M. Collee +46 more
TL;DR: Nearly one‐half of the women at risk for breast cancer had taken no preventive option, relying solely on screening, and there were large differences in the uptake of the different preventive options by country of residence.
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Essential Elements of Genetic Cancer Risk Assessment, Counseling, and Testing: Updated Recommendations of the National Society of Genetic Counselors
Bronson D. Riley,Julie O. Culver,Cécile Skrzynia,Leigha Senter,June A. Peters,Josephine Wagner Costalas,Faith Callif-Daley,Sherry C. Grumet,Katherine S. Hunt,Rebecca Nagy,Wendy McKinnon,Nancie Petrucelli,Robin L. Bennett,Angela Trepanier +13 more
TL;DR: These cancer genetic counseling recommendations describe the medical, psychosocial, and ethical ramifications of counseling at-risk individuals through genetic cancer risk assessment with or without genetic testing.
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Genetic Cancer Risk Assessment and Counseling: Recommendations of the National Society of Genetic Counselors
Angela Trepanier,Mary Ahrens,Wendy McKinnon,June A. Peters,Jill Stopfer,Sherry C. Grumet,Susan Manley,Julie O. Culver,Ronald T. Acton,Joy Larsen-Haidle,Lori Ann Correia,Robin L. Bennett,Barbara Pettersen,Terri Diamond Ferlita,Josephine Wagner Costalas,Katherine Hunt,Susan Donlon,Cécile Skrzynia,Carolyn Farrell,Faith Callif-Daley,Catherine Walsh Vockley +20 more
TL;DR: These cancer genetic counseling recommendations describe the medical, psychosocial, and ethical ramifications of identifying at-risk individuals through cancer risk assessment with or without genetic testing.