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Selective loss of heterozygosity in multiple breast cancers from a carrier of mutations in both BRCA1 and BRCA2.
Cancer research - 15 May 2002
Bell Daphne W, Erban John, Sgroi Dennis C, Haber Daniel A
Abstract excerpt
Carriers of one mutant allele of either BRCA1 or BRCA2 are at risk for somatic loss of the second wild-type allele, leading to the initiation of breast tumorigenesis. We identified a patient of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage with germ-line heterozygous mutations in both BRCA1 (5382insC) and BRCA2 (617...
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