BRCA1 mutations in a population-based sample of young women with breast cancer

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 334, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 137-142

  Langston, Amelia A ^a   Malone, Kathleen E ^a   Thompson, Jennifer D ^a   Daling, Janet R ^a,b   Ostrander, Elaine A ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; BASE SEQUENCE; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030049823     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199601183340301     Document Type: Article

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