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BRCA2: breaks, mistakes and failed separations.
Trends in molecular medicine - 1 Apr 2005
Rudkin Teresa M, Foulkes William D
Abstract excerpt
BRCA2 was identified in 1995, one year after BRCA1. In terms of knowledge of the function of its product, BRCA2 has remained the less well-characterised gene. Both BRCA1 and BRCA2 are closely implicated in the repair of double-strand breaks in DNA by homologous recombination, but beyond that a function for BRCA2 has been hard to discern. A recent study has extended the function of BRCA2 to the regulation of cell...
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