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Absence of truncating BRIP1 mutations in chromosome 17q-linked hereditary prostate cancer families.
British journal of cancer - 15 Dec 2009
Ray A M, Zuhlke K A, Johnson G R, Levin A M, Douglas J A, Lange E M, Cooney K A
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BACKGROUND: In a genome-wide scan (GWS) of 175 multiplex prostate cancer (PCa) families from the University of Michigan Prostate Cancer Genetics Project (PCGP), linkage was observed to markers on chromosome 17q21-24, a region that includes two breast cancer susceptibility genes, BRCA1 and BRIP1. BRIP1 is a Fanconi anaemia gene (FANCJ) that interacts with the BRCT domain of BRCA1 and has a role in DNA damage...
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