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Prevalence of CDKN2A mutations in pancreatic cancer patients: implications for genetic counseling.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Apr 2011
McWilliams Robert R, Wieben Eric D, Rabe Kari G, Pedersen Katrina S, Wu Yanhong, Sicotte Hugues, Petersen Gloria M
Abstract excerpt
Germline mutations in CDKN2A have been reported in pancreatic cancer families, but genetic counseling for pancreatic cancer risk has been limited by lack of information on CDKN2A mutation carriers outside of selected pancreatic or melanoma kindreds. Lymphocyte DNA from consecutive, unselected white non-Hispanic patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma was used to sequence CDKN2A. Frequencies of mutations that...
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