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Germline mutations 657del5 and 643C>T (R215W) in NBN are not likely to be associated with increased risk of breast cancer in Czech women

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Stanislav Kormunda for the statistical analyses and Marie Epsteinova for her excellent technical assistance. The project was supported by the Internal Grant Agency of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, Grant No. NS 10304-3/2009.

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  1. Ivana Ticha

    Present address: Division of Clinical Sciences, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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  1. Department of Oncology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

    Martin Mateju & Jan Novotny

  2. Institute of Biochemistry and Experimental Oncology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, U Nemocnice 5, 128 53, Prague 2, Czech Republic

    Petra Kleiblova, Zdenek Kleibl, Marketa Janatova, Jana Soukupova, Ivana Ticha & Petr Pohlreich

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Mateju, M., Kleiblova, P., Kleibl, Z. et al. Germline mutations 657del5 and 643C>T (R215W) in NBN are not likely to be associated with increased risk of breast cancer in Czech women. Breast Cancer Res Treat 133, 809–811 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-012-2049-x

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