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Prevalence of two BRCA1 mutations, 5382insC and 300T > G, in ovarian cancer patients from Ukraine.
Familial cancer - 1 Oct 2017
Gorodetska I, Serga S, Lahuta T, Ostapchenko L, Demydov S, Khranovska N, Skachkova O, Inomistova M, Kolesnik O, Svintsitsky V, Tsip N, Peresunko A, Kmit' N, Manzhura O, Rossokha Z, Popova O, Salomakhina H, Kyriachenko S, Kozeretska I
Abstract excerpt
Ovarian cancer is the seventh most common cancer in women worldwide and the leading cause of gynecological malignant diseases-related deaths in women. The most significant risk factor for ovarian cancer is an inherited genetic mutation in one of two genes: breast cancer gene 1 (BRCA1) or breast cancer gene 2 (BRCA2). The germline mutation c.5266dupC (also known as 5382insC or 5385insC) is the most common mutation...
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