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Generation and analysis of Brca1 conditional knockout mice.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2004
Deng Chu-Xia, Xu Xiaoling
Abstract excerpt
Germline mutations of the breast tumor suppressor gene BRCA1 predispose women to breast and ovarian cancers. However, loss-of-function mutations of mouse Brca1 results in recessive embryonic lethality, which obscures the functions of BRCA1 in breast cancer formation. Cre-loxP-mediated tissue-specific knockout was employed to overcome this obstacle. We found that the presence of a ploxP-neo-loxP cassette in intron...
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