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High incidence of familial breast cancer segregates with constitutional t(11;22)(q23;q11).
Genes, chromosomes & cancer - 1 Oct 2006
Wieland Ilse, Muschke Petra, Volleth Marianne, Röpke Albrecht, Pelz Antje-Friederike, Stumm Markus, Wieacker Peter
Abstract excerpt
In a family with a high incidence of postmenopausal breast cancer and a case of glioblastoma, the constitutional translocation t(11;22)(q23;q11.2) was shown to segregate with the malignancies. The breakpoints in this family coincided with the common breakpoints in t(11;22) as shown by a translocation-specific PCR assay. Loss of heterozygosity analysis of breast tumor tissue revealed deletion of the normal...
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