Dideoxy fingerprinting assay for BRCA1 mutation analysis

Molecular Carcinogenesis

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 176-179

  Lancaster, Johnathan M ^a,b   Berchuck, Andrew ^b   Futreal, P Andrew ^b,c   Wiseman, Roger W ^a  

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

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Ovarian cancer

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; GENES, BRCA1; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030876649     PISSN: 08991987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2744(199707)19:3<176::AID-MC5>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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