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BRCA1 and BRCA2 in breast cancer predisposition and recombination control.
Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia - 1 Jul 2004
Scully Ralph, Xie Anyong
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary predisposition to breast and ovarian cancer is determined in large part by loss-of-function mutations in one of two genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2 . Early discoveries that the two genes function in the control of homologous recombination and the prevention of genomic instability have been strongly supported by subsequent work. Our aim here is to highlight new advances in the study of BRCA1 and BRCA2 , and to...
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