Evaluación funcional y clasificación clínica de las variantes del BRCA2

Huaizhi Huang1,2,3, Chunling Hu4, Jie Na5

  • 1Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.

Nature
|January 8, 2025
PubMed
Resumen

La caracterización funcional de las variantes de BRCA2 utilizando la tecnología CRISPR-Cas9 mejora la evaluación del riesgo de cáncer. Este estudio clasificó el 91% de las variantes de BRCA2, ayudando al manejo clínico de pacientes con resultados de pruebas genéticas.

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