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Lessons learned from understanding chemotherapy resistance in epithelial tubo-ovarian carcinoma from BRCA1and BRCA2mutation carriers.
Seminars in cancer biology - 1 Dec 2021
Le Page Cécile, Amuzu Setor, Rahimi Kurosh, Gotlieb Walter, Ragoussis Jiannis, Tonin Patricia N
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BRCA1 and BRCA2 are multi-functional proteins and key factors for maintaining genomic stability through their roles in DNA double strand break repair by homologous recombination, rescuing stalled or damaged DNA replication forks, and regulation of cell cycle DNA damage checkpoints. Impairment of any of these critical roles results in genomic instability, a phenotypic hallmark of many cancers including breast and...
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