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Impact of BRCA1 and BRCA2 variants on splicing: clues from an allelic imbalance study.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Nov 2009
Caux-Moncoutier Virginie, Pagès-Berhouet Sabine, Michaux Dorothée, Asselain Bernard, Castéra Laurent, De Pauw Antoine, Buecher Bruno, Gauthier-Villars Marion, Stoppa-Lyonnet Dominique, Houdayer Claude
Abstract excerpt
Nearly one-half of BRCA1 and BRCA2 sequence variations are variants of uncertain significance (VUSs) and are candidates for splice alterations for example, by disrupting/creating splice sites. As out-of-frame splicing defects lead to a marked reduction of the level of the mutant mRNA cleared through nonsense-mediated mRNA decay, a cDNA-based test was developed to show the resulting allelic imbalance (AI)....
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