We analyzed germline mutations of the BRCAl gene in 20 German breast/ovarian-cancer families. BRCA I mutations cosegregating 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 BRC
Increasing incidence of breast cancer in family with BRCA1 mutation
β Scribed by NAROD, S
- Book ID
- 123379105
- Publisher
- The Lancet
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 330 KB
- Volume
- 341
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0140-6736
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