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Maternal and paternal lineage double heterozygosity alteration in familial breast cancer: a first case report.
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 Dec 2010
Pilato Brunella, De Summa Simona, Danza Katia, Lambo Rossana, Paradiso Angelo, Tommasi Stefania
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary breast cancer syndrome was firstly associated with BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes the mutations of which confer high risk to develop breast and/or ovarian cancer. Double heterozygosity is a rare condition in which both BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations are present in a family at the same time. In the c...
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