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BRCA1 haploinsufficiency: consequences for breast cancer.
Women's health (London, England) - 1 Mar 2012
Salmena Leonardo, Narod Steven
Abstract excerpt
In their study, Konishi et al. generate and study cell lines that carry one mutant and one normal copy of BRCA1. These heterozygous (noncancerous) cells are noteworthy in that they carry an increased number of copy number alterations and have diminished DNA repair capacity. These observations go beyond the classical two-hit hypothesis for inherited cancers, whereby the cell phenotype is normal until the second...
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