[These results suggest on one hand that in patients with a history suggestive for a heredofamilial breast/ovarian cancer syndrome fallopian tube carcinoma is associated with high risk of BRCA2 mutation, and on the other hand that in patients/individuals with germline BRCA2 gene mutations in whom a prophylactic oophorectomy is performed, removal of fallopian tubes may be considered.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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