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A population-based study of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in Jewish women with epithelial ovarian cancer.
Obstetrics and gynecology - 1 Jan 1999
Lu K H, Cramer D W, Muto M G, Li E Y, Niloff J, Mok S C
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OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of BRCA1 mutations 185delAG and 5382insC and BRCA2 mutation 6174delT in Jewish women with ovarian cancer and in matched controls in a population-based study. METHODS: Forty-eight Jewish women with epithelial ovarian cancer (32 invasive and 16 borderline) and 33 Jewish control subjects were obtained from a population-based, case-control study of ovarian cancer in eastern...
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