Article
Functional variant of KLOTHO: a breast cancer risk modifier among BRCA1 mutation carriers of Ashkenazi origin.
Oncogene - 7 Jan 2010
Wolf I, Laitman Y, Rubinek T, Abramovitz L, Novikov I, Beeri R, Kuro-O M, Koeffler H P, Catane R, Freedman L S, Levy-Lahad E, Karlan B Y, Friedman E, Kaufman B
Abstract excerpt
Klotho is a transmembrane protein that can be shed and act as a circulating hormone and is a putative tumor suppressor in breast cancer. A functional variant of KLOTHO (KL-VS) contains two amino acid substitutions F352V and C370S and shows reduced activity. Germ-line mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2...
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