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BRCA1 promoter deletions in young women with breast cancer and a strong family history: a population-based study.
European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990) - 1 Mar 2007
Smith L D, Tesoriero A A, Ramus S J, Dite G, Royce S G, Giles G G, McCredie M R E, Hopper J L, Southey M C
Abstract excerpt
Women diagnosed with breast cancer before the age of 40 years who have a strong family history of breast and/or ovarian cancer were selected from an Australian population-based case-control-family study for large deletion screening within the BRCA1 promoter. Deletions within the BRCA1 promoter region are usually not detected by the methods applied in routine clinical mutation detection strategies. Fifty-one of...
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