RAD51, XRCC3, and XRCC2 mutation screening in Finnish breast cancer families
Majority of the known breast cancer susceptibility genes have a role in DNA repair and the most important high-risk genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are specifically involved in the homologous recombination repair (HRR) of DNA double-strand breaks. A central player in HRR is RAD51 that binds DNA at the damage...
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2015
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4404470/ |