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An ELISA-based high throughput protein truncation test for inherited breast cancer.
Breast cancer research : BCR - 1 Jan 2010
Lim Mark J, Foster Gabriel J, Gite Sadanand, Ostendorff Heather P, Narod Steven, Rothschild Kenneth J
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INTRODUCTION: Breast cancer is the most diagnosed and second leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S. female population. An estimated 5 to 10 percent of all breast cancers are inherited, caused by mutations in the breast cancer susceptibility genes (BRCA1/2). As many as 90% of all mutations are nonsense mutations, causing a truncated polypeptide product. A popular and low cost method of mutation detection has...
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