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Hereditary breast cancer: high risk genes, genetic testing and clinical implications.
Clinical laboratory - 1 Jan 2000
Hamann U
Abstract excerpt
About one in eight to ten women living in Western countries will develop breast cancer during her lifetime and between 5-10% of these cases result from an inherited susceptibility to the disease. Within the past few years, a number of genes associated with a high risk of breast cancer have been identified, including BRCA1, BRCA2, TP53, PTEN, MLH1, MSH2, and STK11. The identification of these genes, together with...
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