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Investigating the effects of additional truncating variants in DNA-repair genes on breast cancer risk in BRCA1-positive women
BACKGROUND: Inherited pathogenic variants in BRCA1 and BRCA2 are the most common causes of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC). The risk of developing breast cancer by age 80 in women carrying a BRCA1 pathogenic variant is 72%. The lifetime risk varies between families and even within affect...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6686546/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31395037 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-019-5946-0 |