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Germline BAP1 mutations misreported as somatic based on tumor-only testing.
Familial cancer - 1 Apr 2016
Abdel-Rahman Mohamed H, Rai Karan, Pilarski Robert, Davidorf Frederick H, Cebulla Colleen M
Abstract excerpt
We present three unrelated patients with germline mutations in BAP1 misreported as somatic mutations. All had strong family histories of cancer. One of these patients presented with an invasive breast cancer with the tumor tissue showing partial loss of the mutant rather than the wild type allele, suggesting that the germline BAP1 mutation didn't contribute to breast cancer development in this patient. This data...
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