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Mortality rates among carriers of ataxia-telangiectasia mutant alleles.
Annals of internal medicine - 21 Nov 2000
Su Y, Swift M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Mutations at the ataxia-telangiectasia locus cause a distinctive autosomal recessive syndrome in homozygotes and predispose heterozygotes to cancer and ischemic heart disease. OBJECTIVE: To examine mortality rates among persons carrying a mutated ataxia-telangiectasia gene. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: The United States and Canada. PARTICIPANTS: 405 grandparents of patients with...
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