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Absence of BRCA/FMR1 correlations in women with ovarian cancers.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Gleicher Norbert, McAlpine Jessica N, Gilks C Blake, Kushnir Vitaly A, Lee Ho-Joon, Wu Yan-Guang, Lazzaroni-Tealdi Emanuela, Barad David H
Abstract excerpt
Previously reported findings in Austrian BRCA1/2 mutation carriers suggested a possible dependency of embryos with BRCA1/2 mutations on so-called low alleles of the fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) gene, characterized by less than 26 CGG repeats (CGG(n<26)). The hypothesis arose from a study reporting highly statistically significant enrichment of low FMR1 alleles, significantly exceeding low allele...
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