[We assessed the pattern of X chromosome inactivation using methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction amplification of the exon 1 microsatellite region of the X-linked androgen receptor (AR) gene in DNA from blood samples obtained from control subjects without a personal history of breast or ovarian cancer (n = 735), ovarian cancer patients (n = 313), familial breast cancer patients who did not carry mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 (n = 235), and affected and unaffected carriers of mutations in BRCA1 (n = 260) or BRCA2 (n = 63).]. 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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