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Number of rare germline CNVs and TP53 mutation types.
Orphanet journal of rare diseases - 21 Dec 2012
Silva Amanda G, Achatz Isabel Maria W, Krepischi Ana Cv, Pearson Peter L, Rosenberg Carla
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS), an inherited rare cancer predisposition syndrome characterized by a variety of early-onset tumors, is caused by different highly penetrant germline mutations in the TP53 gene; each separate mutation has dissimilar functional and phenotypic effects, which partially clarifies the reported heterogeneity between LFS families. Increases in copy number variation (CNV) have...
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