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Pathology of breast cancer in women with constitutional CHEK2 mutations.
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 Mar 2005
Huzarski Tomasz, Cybulski Cezary, Domagała Wenancjusz, Gronwald Jacek, Byrski Tomasz, Szwiec Marek, Woyke Stanisław, Narod Steven A, Lubiński Jan
Abstract excerpt
The power of association studies between polymorphic genetic variants and breast cancer may be enhanced if the cancer subjects are subclassified by histologic subgroup. In this study we classified 482 unselected breast cancers from Szczecin, Poland by histology (ductal, lobular, medullary, other). All women were genotyped for three founder mutations in the CHEK2 gene (1100delC, IVS2 + 1G > A and I157T). There was...
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