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Prevalence of pathogenic BRCA1 mutation carriers in 5 US racial/ethnic groups.
JAMA - 26 Dec 2007
John Esther M, Miron Alexander, Gong Gail, Phipps Amanda I, Felberg Anna, Li Frederick P, West Dee W, Whittemore Alice S
Abstract excerpt
CONTEXT: Information on the prevalence of pathogenic BRCA1 mutation carriers in racial/ethnic minority populations is limited. OBJECTIVE: To estimate BRCA1 carrier prevalence in Hispanic, African American, and Asian American female breast cancer patients compared with non-Hispanic white patients with and without Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: We estimated race/ethnicity-specific...
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