BRCA2 and cancer: BRCA2 is an important gene in the DNA repair pathway whose altered function has been associated to many different cancers (Couch et al., 2007; Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network, 2011, Cancer Genome Atlas Network, 2012; Roy et al., 2012; Beltran et al., 2013; Holter et al., 2015; Norris et al., 2015; Patch et al., 2015).