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[BRCA1 and BRCA2 - pathologists starting kit].
Ceskoslovenska patologie - 1 Jan 2000
Škapa Petr
Abstract excerpt
Dysfunction of tumor suppressor genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 is involved in the pathogenesis of malignant tumors, especially breast and ovarian carcinoma. BRCA1/2 genes may be inactivated by germinal and somatic mutations or epigenetic changes. Germinal mutations are responsible for the hereditary breast and ovarian carcinoma syndrome. Defects of BRCA1/2 genes lead to the failure of homologous recombination, the basic...
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