[Previous studies of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) have shown a high frequency of allelic loss on chromosome 13q, infrequent somatic mutations in BRCA2, and a suggested association between a positive family history (FH+) of upper gastrointestinal cancer and germline BRCA2 mutations.]. 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