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SUBMITTER: Prodosmo A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5012020 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Prodosmo Andrea A Buffone Amelia A Mattioni Manlio M Barnabei Agnese A Persichetti Agnese A De Leo Aurora A Appetecchia Marialuisa M Nicolussi Arianna A Coppa Anna A Sciacchitano Salvatore S Giordano Carolina C Pinnarò Paola P Sanguineti Giuseppe G Strigari Lidia L Alessandrini Gabriele G Facciolo Francesco F Cosimelli Maurizio M Grazi Gian Luca GL Corrado Giacomo G Vizza Enrico E Giannini Giuseppe G Soddu Silvia S
Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR 20160906 1
<h4>Background</h4>Variant ATM heterozygotes have an increased risk of developing cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes. Costs and time of sequencing and ATM variant complexity make large-scale, general population screenings not cost-effective yet. Recently, we developed a straightforward, rapid, and inexpensive test based on p53 mitotic centrosomal localization (p53-MCL) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) that diagnoses mutant ATM zygosity and recognizes tumor-associated ATM ...[more]