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Case report: de novo BRCA2 gene mutation in a 35-year-old woman with breast cancer.
Clinical genetics - 1 Nov 2009
Marshall M, Solomon S, Lawrence Wickerham D
Abstract excerpt
In this report, we describe a patient with a de novo BRCA2 gene mutation (5301insA) who developed early onset breast cancer with no strong family history of the disease. Only three similar instances have been reported previously. Subsequent site-specific analysis in her parents showed that neither carried the mutation previously identified in their daughter. Various possible explanations for this finding were...
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