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High grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia does not display loss of heterozygosity at the mutation locus in BRCA2 mutation carriers with aggressive prostate cancer.
BJU international - 1 Dec 2012
Willems-Jones Amber, Kavanagh Liam, Clouston David, Bolton Damien, Fox Stephen, Thorne Heather
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? The risk of developing aggressive prostate cancer is increased for men carrying a pathogenic germline mutation in BRCA2. An earlier study by the Kathleen Cuningham Consortium for Research into Familial Breast Cancer showed that BRCA2 mutation carriers displayed a loss of heterozygosity (LOH) within their prostate cancer tissue in the majority...
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