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A constitutional de novo mutation in exon 8 of the p53 gene in a patient with multiple primary malignancies.
British journal of cancer - 1 Jul 1996
Speiser P, Gharehbaghi-Schnell E, Eder S, Haid A, Kovarík J, Nenutil R, Sauter G, Schneeberger C H, Vojtesek B, Wiltschke C H, Zeillinger R
Abstract excerpt
We report a constitutional point mutation of codon 278 in exon 8 of the TP53 gene that has not yet been described as a germ-line mutation. A 52-year-old female developed multiple primary malignancies (liposarcoma, breast cancer, malignant histiocytoma, occult adenocarcinoma). The mutation found in her tumour and peripheral blood lymphocyte DNA is a cytosine to thymine transition at the second position of codon...
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