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Mutation analysis in the BRCA2 gene in primary breast cancers.
Nature genetics - 1 Jun 1996
Miki Y, Katagiri T, Kasumi F, Yoshimoto T, Nakamura Y
Abstract excerpt
Breast cancer, one of the most common and deleterious of all diseases affecting women, occurs in hereditary and sporadic forms. Hereditary breast cancers are genetically heterogeneous; susceptibility is variously attributable to germline mutations in the BRCA1 (ref. 1), BRCA2 (ref. 2), TP53 (ref. 3) or ataxia telangiectasia (ATM) genes, each of which is considered to be a tumour suppressor. Recently a number of...
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