The mutation frequency was higher in the subgroup of TNBC than in the premenopausal breast cancer patients: 23.3 % (7/30) of TNBC patients harbour a pathogenic mutation in either BRCA1 or BRCA2, compared to 12.0 % (11/92) of all premenopausal breast cancer patients. This evidence concerns the gene BRCA1 and breast carcinoma.