Cancer in ataxia-telangiectasia patients.

doi:10.1016/0165-4608(90)90003-s

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Cancer in ataxia-telangiectasia patients.

Cancer genetics and cytogenetics - 1 May 1990

Hecht F, Hecht B K

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A gene locus for ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) is in chromosome region 11q22 to 11q23 and predisposes to cancer. Ataxia-telangiectasia patients appear to have two separate clinical patterns of malignancy. One pattern involves solid tumors, which have not been stressed and which include malignancies...

Topics

Ataxia Telangiectasia
Chromosome Mapping
Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11
Female
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Humans
Male
Neoplasms

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