A germline mosaic BRCA1 exon deletion in a woman with bilateral basal-like breast cancer

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 297-299

  Delon, I ^a   Taylor, A ^a   Molenda, A ^a   Drummond, J ^a   Oakhill, K ^a   Girling, A ^b   Liu, H ^a   Whittaker, J ^a   Treacy, R ^a   Tischkowitz, M ^a,c  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

ALLELE; BASAL LIKE BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL FEATURE; EXON; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MOSAICISM; MULTIPLEX LIGATION DEPENDENT PROBE AMPLIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; EXONS; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA1; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; PEDIGREE; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 84881614507     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: 13990004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cge.12057     Document Type: Letter

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