In search of the tumour-suppressor functions of BRCA1 and BRCA2
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- 23 November 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 408 (6811), 429-432
- https://doi.org/10.1038/35044000
Abstract
Hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndromes can be caused by loss-of-function germline mutations in one of two tumour-suppressor genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2 (ref. 1). Each gene product interacts with recombination/DNA repair proteins in pathways that participate in preserving intact chromosome structure. However, it is unclear to what extent such functions specifically suppress breast and ovarian cancer. Here we analyse what is known of BRCA gene function and highlight some unanswered questions in the field.Keywords
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