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Role of BRCA1 in brain development.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Apr 2014
Pao Gerald M, Zhu Quan, Perez-Garcia Carlos G, Chou Shen-Ju, Suh Hoonkyo, Gage Fred H, O'Leary Dennis D M, Verma Inder M
Abstract excerpt
Breast cancer susceptibility gene 1 (BRCA1) is a breast and ovarian cancer tumor suppressor whose loss leads to DNA damage and defective centrosome functions. Despite its tumor suppression functions, BRCA1 is most highly expressed in the embryonic neuroepithelium when the neural progenitors are highly proliferative. To determine its functional significance, we deleted BRCA1 in the developing brain using a neural...
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