Pseudo Low Penetrance in Retinoblastoma: Fortuitous Familial Aggregation of Sporadic Cases Caused by Independently Derived Mutations in Two Large Pedigrees

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 111, Issue 11, 1993, Pages 1507-1511

  Munier, Francis L ^a   Wang, Ming X ^b   Spence, M Anne ^c   Thonney, Francine ^d   Balmer, Aubin ^e   Pescia, Graziano ^d   Donoso, Larry A ^b   Murphree, A Linn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WILLS EYE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PEDIGREE; PENETRANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOBLASTOMA;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, NEOPLASM; EYE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENES, RETINOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; INFANT; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM (GENETICS); PROBABILITY; RETINOBLASTOMA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0027380668     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.1993.01090110073028     Document Type: Article

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