The carrier frequency of the BRCA1 185delAG mutation is approximately 1 percent in Ashkenazi Jewish individuals

Nature Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 198-200

  Struewing, Jeffery P ^a,b   Abeliovich, Dvorah ^c   Peretz, Tamar ^c   Avishai, Naaman ^c   Kaback, Michael M ^d   Collins, Francis S ^b   Brody, Lawrence C ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER RISK; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RISK; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; JEW; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; JEWS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SEQUENCE DELETION; TAY-SACHS DISEASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0029083814     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1095-198     Document Type: Article

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