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ATM allelic variants associated to hereditary breast cancer in 94 Chilean women: susceptibility or ethnic influences?
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 Jan 2008
Tapia Teresa, Sanchez Alejandro, Vallejos Maricarmen, Alvarez Carolina, Moraga Mauricio, Smalley Susan, Camus Mauricio, Alvarez Manuel, Carvallo Pilar
Abstract excerpt
Besides BRCA1 and BRCA2, two genes accounting for a small proportion of breast cancer cases, ATM has been widely proposed as a low-penetrance susceptibility gene. Several nucleotide changes have been proposed to be associated with breast cancer, still remaining a high controversy in this sense. We screened the ATM gene in 94 breast cancer patients selected from 78 high-risk families, not presenting a mutation in...
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