BRCA1 and breast carcinoma: As the ascertainment criteria of HBC and HBOC families is the same across all of our studies in this population, our revised estimate of the carrier frequency in HBC/HBOC with at least three cases of breast cancer under 66 years or age and/or ovarian cancer found negative for BRCA1 and BRCA2 is approximately 2.2% (2 of 89).