title: Screening for germ line TP53 mutations in breast cancer patients.
abstract: The constant denaturant gel electrophoresis technique was used to screen for TP53 germ line mutations in 237 women with breast carcinoma (167 unselected patients, 30 patients with at least one first-degree relative with breast cancer, and 40 women diagnosed with breast cancer before age 35). A germ line mutation at codon 181 was noted in one of the unselected patients and a codon 245 mutation in one of the early-onset patients. Both had a family history of breast cancer and other malignancies suggestive of Li-Fraumeni syndrome. The codon 245 mutation was also present in this patient's affected mother.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo.
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Børresen
authors.forename: T I
authors.initials: TI
authors.lastname: Andersen
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Garber
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Barbier-Piraux
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Thorlacius
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Eyfjörd
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ottestad
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Smith-Sørensen
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hovig
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Malkin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001483:Base Sequence; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics*; D003062:Codon / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D016147:Genes, Tumor Suppressor; D006801:Humans; D007055:Iceland / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009154:Mutation; D009664:Norway / Q000453:epidemiology; D010375:Pedigree; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D003062:Codon