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Identification of a 3 kb Alu-mediated BRCA1 gene rearrangement in two breast/ovarian cancer families.
Oncogene - 15 Jul 1999
Montagna M, Santacatterina M, Torri A, Menin C, Zullato D, Chieco-Bianchi L, D'Andrea E
Abstract excerpt
Most of the hereditary breast cancers are attributed to constitutive alterations of either BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes; nonetheless, germline mutations of these genes in 'high risk' families are found less frequently than expected from linkage data. Recent findings suggest that major genomic rearrangements of the BRCA1 gene might account for at least some of the apparently mutation negative cases. We studied 60 affected...
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