Mutation analysis of the BRCA2 gene in 49 site-specific breast cancer families

Nature Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 120-122

  Phelan, Catherine M ^a,b,c   Lancaster, Johnathan M ^d   Tonin, Patricia ^a   Gumbs, Curtis ^c   Cochran, Charles ^d   Carter, Ron ^e   Ghadirian, Parviz ^f   Perret, Chantal ^f   Moslehi, Roxana ^g   Dion, France ^a   Faucher, Marie Claude ^a   Dole, Kiran ^a   Karimi, Sepideh ^a   Foulkes, Willliam ^a   Lounis, Hafida ^h   Warner, Ellen ⁱ   Goss, Paul ^j   Anderson, David ^k   Larsson, Catharina ^b   Narod, Steven A ^l   Futreal, P Andrew ^c   more..

^a MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

^f CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^h Institut du Cancer de Montreal   (Canada)

ⁱ DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

^j UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^l WOMEN S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (Canada)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CANADA; CODON; ETHNOLOGY; EXON; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONSET AGE; PANCREAS TUMOR; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS, MALE; CANADA; CODON; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXONS; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030137718     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0596-120     Document Type: Article

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