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The BRCA2 sequence variant IVS19+1G→A leads to an aberrant transcript lacking exon 19

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Acknowledgements

This study was supported by grants from the Ministero della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (COFIN'01), AIRC (Coordinated Project: “Italian Consortium for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer”), and “Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo”.

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The authors contributed equally to this work.

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