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A hypersensitive estrogen receptor-alpha mutation in premalignant breast lesions.
Cancer research - 1 Aug 2000
Fuqua S A, Wiltschke C, Zhang Q X, Borg A, Castles C G, Friedrichs W E, Hopp T, Hilsenbeck S, Mohsin S, O'Connell P, Allred D C
Abstract excerpt
The best current model of breast cancer evolution suggests that most cancers arise from certain premalignant lesions. We have identified a common (34%) somatic mutation in the estrogen receptor (ER)-alpha gene in a series of 59 typical hyperplasias, a type of early premalignant breast lesion. The...
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