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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Rinske Drost
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-26723 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Bouwman Peter P Drost Rinske R Klijn Christiaan C Pieterse Mark M van der Gulden Hanneke H Song Ji-Ying JY Szuhai Karoly K Jonkers Jos J
The Journal of pathology 20110314 1
PALB2 interacts with BRCA1 and BRCA2 in supercomplexes involved in DNA repair via homologous recombination. Heterozygous germline mutations in PALB2 confer a moderate risk of breast cancer, while biallelic PALB2 mutations are linked to a severe form of Fanconi anaemia characterized by early childhood solid tumours and severe chromosomal instability. In contrast to BRCA1- or BRCA2-associated cancers, breast tumours in heterozygous PALB2 mutation carriers do not show loss of the wild-type allele, ...[more]