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Association of the germline TP53 R337H mutation with breast cancer in southern Brazil

Juliana G Assumpção1 email, Ana Luíza Seidinger1 email, Maria José Mastellaro1 email, Raul C Ribeiro2,3 email, Gerard P Zambetti4 email, Ramapriya Ganti5 email, Kumar Srivastava6 email, Sheila Shurtleff5 email, Deqing Pei6 email, Luiz Carlos Zeferino7 email, Rozany M Dufloth8 email, Silvia Regina Brandalise1 email and José Andres Yunes1 email

Centro Infantil Boldrini, Campinas, Brazil

Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, USA

International Outreach Program, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, USA

Department of Biochemistry, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, USA

Department of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, USA

Department of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, USA

Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil

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BMC Cancer 2008, 8:357doi:10.1186/1471-2407-8-357

Published: 1 December 2008

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Additional file 1:

IHC and LOH results of tumor samples from R337H patients. First column shows HE staining in tumor slides from the R337H breast cancer patients, second column shows p53 immunohistochemistry in the same tumors, third column corresponds to electropherograms showing loss of heterozygosity at codon 337 in each tumor. Patient 2's brain tumor and patient 3's breast tumor showed a strong staining pattern for p53, while only patient 2's brain tumor showed LOH with retention of the 337H allele.

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