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Genetic sequence variations of BRCA1-interacting genes AURKA, BAP1, BARD1 and DHX9 in French Canadian families with high risk of breast cancer.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Mar 2009
Guénard Frédéric, Labrie Yvan, Ouellette Geneviève, Beauparlant Charles Joly, Durocher Francine
Abstract excerpt
Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease displaying some degree of familial clustering. Highly penetrant breast cancer susceptibility genes represent approximately 20-25% of the familial aggregation of breast cancer. A significant proportion of this familial aggregation of breast cancer is thus yet to be explained by other breast cancer susceptibility genes. Given the high susceptibility conferred by the two...
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