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The short estrous cycle of mice may influence the effect of BRCA1 mutations.
Medical hypotheses - 1 Sept 2011
Nishimura Toshihide
Abstract excerpt
Breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility gene 1 (BRCA1) was identified from the genomic analysis of breast cancer families. Women heterozygous for a germ line mutation in the BRCA1 gene have a high risk of developing breast or ovarian cancers. BRCA1-mutant mice were created to study the function of BRCA1, but the heterozygous mice were healthy. The reason for this difference in phenotype between mice and humans...
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