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BRCA1 mutations in German breast-cancer families.
International journal of cancer - 9 Oct 1996
Jandrig B, Grade K, Seitz S, Waindzoch B, Müller M, Bender E, Nothnagel A, Rohde K, Schlag P M, Kath R, Höffken K, Scherneck S
Abstract excerpt
We analyzed germline mutations of the BRCA1 gene in 20 German breast/ovarian-cancer families. BRCA1 mutations co-segregating with breast-cancer susceptibility were identified in 3 of these families. All mutations were found to generate a premature stop codon leading to the synthesis of truncated BRCA1 proteins of different length. Nine polymorphisms were detected in BRCA1, 4 of which have not been described...
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