Frequency of the BRCA1 185delAG mutation among Jewish women with ovarian cancer and matched population controls

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1250-1252

  Muto, Michael G ^a   Cramer, Daniel W ^a   Tangir, Jacob ^a   Berkowitz, Ross ^a   Mok, Samuel ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER GENETICS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; JEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY CANCER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

BASE SEQUENCE; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EXONS; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; JEWS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030007136     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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