The higher proportion of BRCA2 PVs in some populations has been previously reported in other studies in selected or unselected women with breast cancer from Colombia [31, 34] and US Latinos from Puerto Rico and Cuba [7], whereas BRCA1 PVs are more frequent in breast and ovarian patients from Peru [3] and US Latinos from Mexico [7]. This evidence concerns the gene BRCA2 and breast carcinoma.