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Association of PALB2 sequence variants with the risk of early-onset breast cancer in patients from Turkey.
Molecular biology reports - 1 Nov 2016
Cecener G, Guney Eskiler G, Egeli U, Tunca B, Alemdar A, Gokgoz S, Tasdelen I
Abstract excerpt
The PALB2 gene, has been accepted as a moderate-penetrance gene associated with breast cancer susceptibility and this gene product is involved in the DNA damage repair pathway via co-localization with BRCA2. Germline PALB2 mutations are associated with an increased breast cancer risk. However, the prevalence of the diverse types of PALB2 variants depend on the population. Thus, the aim of the present study was to...
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