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Detection of new point mutations of BRCA1 and BRCA2 in breast cancer patients.
Biochemical genetics - 1 Feb 2014
Bensam Moufida, Hafez Elsayed, Awad Doaa, El-Saadani Muhammad, Balbaa Mahmoud
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This study included 20 selected female patients with breast cancer, 30 of their female relatives (sisters and daughters), and 10 healthy females as a control group. Genomic DNA was extracted from peripheral blood lymphocytes of all the subjects, and the polymerase chain reaction was carried out using specific primers for BRCA1 (exons 2 and 8) and BRCA2 (exons 9, 11, and 21). The mutations were detected using a...
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