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BRCA1 and BRCA2 in breast cancer.
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 Mar 1999
Yang X, Lippman M E
Abstract excerpt
Breast cancer, one of the most common serious malignancies affecting women, occurs in hereditary and sporadic forms. Hereditary breast cancer accounts for 5-10% of all cases and has some distinctive clinical features compared with sporadic breast cancer. The recently identified genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 appear to account for the majority of hereditary breast cancer in US and European populations. Both of these genes...
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