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Characterization of a new cytogenetic subtype of ductal breast carcinomas.
Oncogene - 5 Aug 2004
Molist Romain, Remvikos Yorghos, Dutrillaux Bernard, Muleris Martine
Abstract excerpt
About 50% of ductal breast carcinomas do not yield analysable karyotypes after short-term culturing. Comparison of the cytogenetic subset to the whole data set of tumors revealed that slightly hyperdiploid tumors, that is, with DNA index between 1.05 and 1.3, were under-represented in tumors for which cytogenetic analysis was successful. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the pattern of chromosome...
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