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Cancer risk according to type and location of ATM mutation in ataxia-telangiectasia families.
Genes, chromosomes & cancer - 1 Jan 2005
Cavaciuti E, Laugé A, Janin N, Ossian K, Hall J, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Andrieu N
Abstract excerpt
Epidemiological studies have indicated that ataxia-telangiectasia (AT) heterozygotes in AT families have an increased risk of cancer, particularly of breast cancer (BC). However, in BC case-control studies, no significant differences were found in the frequency of ATM mutations between patients and controls. In such studies missense mutations were found more frequently than truncating mutations, suggesting that...
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