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Screening for ATM sequence alterations in African-American women diagnosed with breast cancer.
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 Jan 2008
Hirsch Ariel E, Atencio David P, Rosenstein Barry S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Women who are heterozygous for variants in the ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) gene, ATM carriers, have been reported to be at increased risk for breast cancer compared with women who do not posses an alteration in this gene. Aside from BRCA1 and BRCA2, there are few data on breast cancer susceptibility genes in African-American women. The goal of this study was to determine whether there is...
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