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BRCA1 c.5470_5477del, a founder mutation in Chinese Han breast cancer patients.
International journal of cancer - 1 Jun 2020
Meng Hua, Yao Lu, Yuan Hua, Xu Ye, Ouyang Tao, Li Jinfeng, Wang Tianfeng, Fan Zhaoqing, Fan Tie, Lin Benyao, Xie Yuntao
Abstract excerpt
The spectrum and frequency of BRCA1/2 pathogenic variants may be ethnicity-specific. Whether high-frequency founder mutations are present in Chinese women remains largely unknown. In the current study, germline pathogenic variants in the BRCA1/2 genes were determined in 9,505 unselected Chinese Han breast cancer (BC) patients by next-generation and/ or Sanger sequencing. Four hundred and seventy-one (5.0%) BC...
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