South Africa: A Founder BRCA2 Mutation In Non-Afrikaner Breast Cancer Patients Of The Western ...

South Africa: A Founder BRCA2 Mutation In Non-Afrikaner Breast Cancer Patients Of The Western Cape of South Africa NC van der Merwe, N Hamel, S-R Schneider, JP Apffelstaedt, JT Wijnen, and WD Foulkes, 2011   Founder mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 have been reported in many different populations. We studied 105 Coloured and 16 Black Xhosa women residing in the Western Cape of South Africa diagnosed with breast cancer. We screened these patients using our standard panel of six previously...

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