BRCA2 and breast carcinoma: The majority (80%) of BRCA2 germline mutations are nonsense or frameshift mutations, such as the 6174delT mutation and other exon 11 mutations, which lead to the development of premature stop codons and result in truncated and non-functional BRCA2 proteins similar to what is seen in BRCA2-mutated breast cancers (Hahn et al., 2003).