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Identification of recurrent BRCA1 mutation and its clinical relevance in Chinese Triple-negative breast cancer cohort.
Cancer medicine - 1 Mar 2017
Liu Xiaoran, Li Huiping, Shao Bin, Wu Jianmin, Kong Weiyao, Song Guohong, Jiang Hanfang, Wang Jing, Wan Fengling
Abstract excerpt
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) accounts for 15-20% of all newly diagnosed breast cancers, and is enriched for germline mutation of BRCA. In Asian patients diagnosed with breast cancer, 268 deleterious mutations of BRCA1 and 242 of BRCA2 have been identified so far, including a reported BRCA1 frameshift mutation (rs80350973), apparently found only in Asian people, with a low prevalence of 0.3-1.7% in...
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