Identification by representational difference analysis of a homozygous deletion in pancreatic carcinoma that lies within the BRCA2 region.

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Homozygous deletions have been central to the discovery of several tumor-suppressor genes, but their finding has often been either serendipitous or the result of a directed search. A recently described technique [Lisitsyn, N., Lisitsyn, N. & Wigler, M. (1993) Science 259, 946-951] held out the potential to efficiently discover such events in an unbiased manner. Here we present the application of the...

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