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Role of BRCA gene dysfunction in breast and ovarian cancer predisposition.
Breast cancer research : BCR - 1 Jan 2000
Scully R
Abstract excerpt
Tumor suppressor genes that perform apparently generic cellular functions nonetheless cause tissue-specific syndromes in the human population when they are mutated in the germline. The two major hereditary breast/ovarian cancer predisposition genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, appear to participate in a common pathway that is involved in the control of homologous recombination and in the maintenance of genomic integrity....
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