A single BRCA2 mutation in male and female breast cancer families from Iceland with varied cancer phenotypes

Nature Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 117-119

  Thorlacius, Steinunn ^a   Olafsdottir, Gudridur ^a   Tryggvadottir, Laufey ^a   Neuhausen, Susan ^b   Jonasson, Jon G ^c   Tavtigian, Sean V ^d   Tulinius, Hrafn ^a   Ögmundsdottir, Helga M ^a   Eyfjörd, Jorunn E ^a  

^a ICELANDIC CANCER SOCIETY   (Iceland)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^d Myriad Genetic Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA2 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CHROMOSOME 13; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; EXON; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; ICELAND; MALE; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BASE COMPOSITION; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS, MALE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 13; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; EXONS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; ICELAND; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030140026     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0596-117     Document Type: Article

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