Association between the BRCA2 N372H variant and male breast cancer risk: a population-based case-control study in Tuscany, Central Italy

BACKGROUND: Male breast cancer (MBC) is a rare disease and little is known about its aetiology. Germ-line mutations of BRCA2 and, at lower frequency, of BRCA1 are implicated in a relatively small proportion of MBC cases. Common polymorphic variants in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes may represent breast cance...

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Main Authors: Palli, Domenico, Falchetti, Mario, Masala, Giovanna, Lupi, Ramona, Sera, Francesco, Saieva, Calogero, D'Amico, Cristina, Ceroti, Marco, Rizzolo, Piera, Caligo, Maria Adelaide, Zanna, Ines, Ottini, Laura
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2007
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2001195/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17767707
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-7-170
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