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BRCA2 T2722R is a deleterious allele that causes exon skipping.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Sept 2002
Fackenthal James D, Cartegni Luca, Krainer Adrian R, Olopade Olufunmilayo I
Abstract excerpt
Patients with a strong family history of breast cancer are often counseled to receive genetic screening for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations, the strongest known predictors of breast cancer. A major limitation of genetic testing is the number of inconclusive results due to unclassified BRCA1 and BRCA2 sequence variants. Many known deleterious BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations affect splicing, and these typically lie near...
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