Absence of BRCA/FMR1 correlations in women with ovarian cancers.

Previously reported findings in Austrian BRCA1/2 mutation carriers suggested a possible dependency of embryos with BRCA1/2 mutations on so-called low alleles of the fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) gene, characterized by less than 26 CGG repeats (CGG(n<26)). The hypothesis arose from a study...

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Main Authors: Norbert Gleicher, Jessica N McAlpine, C Blake Gilks, Vitaly A Kushnir, Ho-Joon Lee, Yan-Guang Wu, Emanuela Lazzaroni-Tealdi, David H Barad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/25036526/?tool=EBI