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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 strand of the p53 gene were found to be higher than expected, and we suggest, therefore, that exogenous carcinogens have an...
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