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Screening RAD51C nucleotide alterations in patients with a family history of breast and ovarian cancer.
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 Dec 2010
Zheng Yonglan, Zhang Jing, Hope Kisha, Niu Qun, Huo Dezheng, Olopade Olufunmilayo I
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It has been reported that one biallelic missense mutation in the RAD51C gene was found in a Fanconi anemia-like disorder and six monoallelic pathogenic mutations were identified in 480 BRCA1/2 negative breast and ovarian cancer pedigrees but not in 620 pedigrees with breast cancer only. Additionally, the RAD51C gene was reported to be involved in gene fusion events in the MCF-7 breast cancer cell line. We...
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