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Novel germline mutations in BRCA2 gene among 96 hereditary breast and breast-ovarian cancer families from Kerala, South India.
Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology - 1 Nov 2007
Syamala Vani, Sreeja Leelakumari, Syamala Volga S, Vinodkumar B, Raveendran Praveenkumar B, Sreedharan Hariharan, Kuttappan Ratheesan, Balakrishnan Lekshmi, Ankathil Ravindran
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PURPOSE: Aim of the present study was to identify the genetic heterogeneity, prevalence and frequency of germline mutations of BRCA2 gene in Hereditary Breast/Ovarian cancer patients from Kerala, South India. METHODS: We analyzed 102 Breast/Ovarian cancer patients from 96 breast and/ovarian cancer families for BRCA2 gene mutations using Conformation-Sensitive Gel Electrophoresis (CSGE) followed by sequencing....
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