Article
p53 mutations in breast cancer.
Cancer research - 1 Oct 1992
Coles C, Condie A, Chetty U, Steel C M, Evans H J, Prosser J
Abstract excerpt
We have identified and analyzed 41 mutations in p53 in sporadic breast tumors from 136 unselected breast cancer patients and estimate that approximately 40% of such tumors contain p53 mutations. The frequency of G-T transversions and the incidence of guanosine mutations in the nontranscribed stra...
Topics
- Base Composition
- Breast Neoplasms
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17
- Codon
- Colonic Neoplasms
- Female
- Genes, p53
- Heterozygote
- Humans
- Incidence
- Li-Fraumeni Syndrome
- Mutation
