Recurrent BRCA2 6174delT mutations in Ashkenazi Jewish women affected by breast cancer

Nature Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 126-129

  Neuhausen, Susan ^b   Gilewski, Teresa ^a   Norton, Larry ^a   Tran, Thao ^b   McGuire, Peter ^a   Swensen, Jeff ^b   Hampel, Heather ^a   Borgen, Patrick ^a   Brown, Karen ^a   Skolnick, Mark ^c,d   Shattuck Eidens, Donna ^c   Jhanwar, Suresh ^a   Goldgar, David ^d   Offit, Kenneth ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Myriad Genetic Laboratories   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; HUMAN; JEW; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY TUMOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA PRIMERS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; JEWS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030138354     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0596-126     Document Type: Article

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