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Mutant BRCA1 genes antagonize phenotype of wild-type BRCA1.
Oncogene - 13 Dec 2001
Fan S, Yuan R, Ma Y X, Meng Q, Goldberg I D, Rosen E M
Abstract excerpt
Unregulated expression of wild-type BRCA1 (wtBRCA1) confers an altered phenotype in cultured human prostate cancer cells, characterized by chemosensitivity, susceptibility to apoptosis, decreased DNA repair activity, and alterations of key cell regulatory proteins. We now report that the expression of truncated or mutant full-length BRCA1 genes can abrogate certain phenotypic characteristics and/or confer the...
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