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Hereditary ovarian cancer: not only BRCA 1 and 2 genes.
BioMed research international - 1 Jan 2015
Toss Angela, Tomasello Chiara, Razzaboni Elisabetta, Contu Giannina, Grandi Giovanni, Cagnacci Angelo, Schilder Russell J, Cortesi Laura
Abstract excerpt
More than one-fifth of ovarian tumors have hereditary susceptibility and, in about 65-85% of these cases, the genetic abnormality is a germline mutation in BRCA genes. Nevertheless, several other suppressor genes and oncogenes have been associated with hereditary ovarian cancers, including the mismatch repair (MMR) genes in Lynch syndrome, the tumor suppressor gene, TP53, in the Li-Fraumeni syndrome, and several...
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