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Spontaneous In Vitro Immortalization of Breast Epithelial Cells from a Patient with Li-Fraumeni Syndrome
1 Jan 1995
Abstract excerpt
Individuals with germ line mutations in the p53 gene, such as Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS), have an increased occurrence of many types of cancer, including an unusually high incidence of breast cancer. This report documents that normal breast epithelial cells obtained from a patient with LFS (with a mutation at codon 133 of the p53 gene) spontaneously immortalized in cell culture while the breast stromal...
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