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Investigations on a clinically and functionally unusual and novel germline p53 mutation.
British journal of cancer - 20 May 2002
Rutherford J, Chu C E, Duddy P M, Charlton R S, Chumas P, Taylor G R, Lu X, Barnes D M, Camplejohn R S
Abstract excerpt
This report describes an individual with a rare choroid plexus papilloma in adulthood (age 29) after earlier having an osteosarcoma (age 22). The results from this study, and others, suggest that it may be advisable to consider the possibility of a germline p53 mutation in adults presenting with choroid plexus tumours. In the current study automated DNA sequencing of genomic DNA detected a novel germline 7 base...
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