The regulation of mitotic spindle orientation by BRCA1 controls the proliferation, polarization and growth arrest of human mammary epithelia

Carriers of mutations in the Breast Cancer 1 (BRCA1) gene have an increased risk to develop breast cancer, which tend to be early-onset, lack expression of estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2, and resemble basal epithelia by gene expression. The phen...

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Main Author: Nemirovsky, Oksana
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/50210