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. 2007 Apr 18;26(8):2227. doi: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601547

A homologue of the breast cancer-associated gene BARD1 is involved in DNA repair in plants

Wim Reidt, Rebecca Wurz, Kristina Wanieck, Hoang Ha Chu, Holger Puchta
PMCID: PMC1852773

Abstract

Correction to: The EMBO Journal (2005) 25, 4326–4337. doi:10.1038/sj.emboj.7601313


The authors have discovered an error in the above article.

In the Result section, two references were wrongly cited.

The published statement: ‘This is in contrast to the original report of Lafarge and Montane (2003) who identified the ORF of full-length AtBRCA1 consisting of 4485 bp and 15 exons. The first exon postulated by Lafarge and Montane (2003) is part of another gene rather than the ORF of AtBRCA1'.

Is wrong.

The correct statement is: ‘This is in contrast to the original report of Joukov et al (2001) who suggested an ORF of full length AtBRCA1 consisting of 4485 bp and 15 exons but in accordance to experimental data presented already by Lafarge and Montane (2003). The first exon postulated by Joukov et al (2001) is part of another gene rather than the ORF of AtBRCA1'.

Footnotes

The authors apologise for any inconvenience caused.

References

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