[With Affymetrix GeneChip arrays, we genotyped 8,576 polymorphisms in three sets of Ashkenazi Jewish breast cancer cases: a validation set of 27 breast cancer cases, all of whom carried the BRCA2*6174delT founder mutation; a field set of 19 breast cancer cases from male breast cancer kindreds, which simulated conditions for finding new genes; and a test set of 57 probands from breast cancer kindreds (4 or more cases/kindred), in which mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 had been excluded.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE