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Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Medicine
Human Genetics and Developmental Biology
   
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Cancer genetics

Molecular genetic research on sporadic as well as familial cases of breast/ ovarian cancer, colorectal cancer, VHL-syndrome, endometrial carcinoma and retinoblastoma. Molecular diagnoses of leukaemias, eg. chronic myeloid leukaemia

Postgraduate students' research projects completed in 2001 (titles of dissertations and theses)

Dissertations

Dorfling CM: Mutational analysis of the DNA mismatch repair genes, hMLH1 and hMSH2, in South African colorectal cancer patients (Prof E Jansen van Rensburg)

Yawitch TM: Inherited predisposition to breast / ovarian cancer: The frequency and nature of BRCA1 gene mutations in South African families (Prof E Jansen van Rensburg)