BRCA2 Mutations and Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
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BRCA2 Mutations and Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Recently, BRCA1 germline mutations were found in a high proportion (14-34%) of patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). BRCA2 was either not analyzed or showed much lower mutation frequencies. Therefore, we screened a group of TNBC patients (n = 30) of white European descent for mutations in BRCA2 as well as in BRCA1. Cases were unselected for age of disease-onset (median age at brea...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038361