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p53 mutations occur in aggressive breast cancer.
Cancer research - 15 Jul 1992
Mazars R, Spinardi L, BenCheikh M, Simony-Lafontaine J, Jeanteur P, Theillet C
Abstract excerpt
Using a polymerase chain reaction-single strand conformation polymorphism approach we analyzed 96 human primary breast tumors for the presence of mutations in exons 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of the p53 gene. These exons have been shown to comprise highly conserved sequences and the portion including exons 5 through 9 is believed to be the target for over 90% of the acquired mutations in human cancer. Eighteen tumors...
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