Germline mutations of the BRCA1 gene in breast and ovarian cancer families provide evidence for a genotype–phenotype correlation

Nature Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 428-433

  Gayther, Simon A ^a   Warren, William ^b   Mazoyer, Sylvie ^a   Russell, Paul A ^a   Harrington, Patricia A ^a   Chiano, Mathias ^a,c   Seal, Sheila ^b   Hamoudi, Rifat ^b   van Rensburg, Elizabeth J ^a,d   Dunning, Alison M ^a   Love, Richard ^e   Evans, Gareth ^f   Easton, Doug ^g   Clayton, David ^c   Stratton, Michael R ^b   Ponder, Bruce A J ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^e St Mary's Hospital Manchester ^*  (United States)

^f Hopital Manchester Centre Hospitalier de Charleville Mezieres   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; GERM LINE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OVARY CANCER; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS, MALE; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMAN; MALE; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PHENOTYPE; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0028844202     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1295-428     Document Type: Article

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