BRCA1 and breast carcinoma: Based on highly similar founder variant spectra of the BRCA1 in Poland and Latvia, we decided to test the frequency of other common variants of moderate breast cancer risk — c.509_510delGA (rs515726124) and c.172_175delTTGT (rs180177143) of the PALB2 gene and c.1667_1667+3delAGTA variant of the RECQL gene in a breast cancer case-control series from Latvia to better understand the role of genes in susceptibility to breast cancer and their clinical significance.