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Rapid and cost effective screening of breast and ovarian cancer genes using novel sequence capture method in clinical samples.
Familial cancer - 1 Dec 2014
Arvai Kristóf, Horváth Péter, Balla Bernadett, Tőkés Anna M, Tobiás Bálint, Takács István, Nagy Zsolt, Lakatos Péter, Kósa János P
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BRCA1 and BRCA2 are two well-known genes in the background of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. There is also evidence that several other genes play an important role in the pathogenesis of these two malignancies. Latest population-scaled studies showed that certain mutations in different genes could cause similar risk elevation like BRCA2 mutations. In this study we present a new method to analyse the risk...
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