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. 1997 May;60(5):1233–1236.

Recurrent germ-line BRCA1 mutations in extended African American families with early-onset breast cancer.

Q Gao, S Neuhausen, S Cummings, M Luce, O I Olopade
PMCID: PMC1712427  PMID: 9150171

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