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Germline BRCA1 mutation analysis in Indian breast/ovarian cancer families.
Cancer biology & therapy - 1 Jan 2000
Kumar B Vinod, Lakhotia Smita, Ankathil Ravindran, Madhavan Jayaprakash, Jayaprakash P G, Nair M Krishnan, Somasundaram Kumaravel
Abstract excerpt
Most of the predisposition to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer has been attributed to inherited defects in two tumor suppressor genes BRCA1 and BRCA2. To explore the contribution of BRCA1 mutations to hereditary breast cancer among Indian women, we examined the coding sequence of the BRCA1 gene in 14 breast cancer patients with a positive family history of breast and/or ovarian cancer. Mutation analysis was...
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