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BRCAness: a standalone construct

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Cancer biology

traits shared by some sporadic cancers with BRCA-mutant tumors, mainly a defect in homologous recombination repair.

In cancer biology, BRCAness refers to traits shared by some sporadic cancers with BRCA-mutant tumors, mainly a defect in homologous recombination repair. This meaning comes from Turner (2004) in Nature Reviews Cancer.[1]

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References

Turner, N., Tutt, A., & Ashworth, A. (2004). Hallmarks of 'BRCAness' in sporadic cancers. Nature Reviews Cancer, 4(10), 814-819. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrc1457

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