A low proportion of BRCA2 mutations in Finnish breast cancer families

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1050-1058

  Vehmanen, Paula ^a   Friedman, Lori S ^b   Eerola, Hannaleena ^a   Sarantaus, Laura ^a   Pyrhönen, Seppo ^a   Ponder, Bruce A J ^b   Muhonen, Timo ^a   Nevanlinna, Heli ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER FAMILY; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GERM LINE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; ICELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUTATION; OVARY CANCER; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOUNDER EFFECT; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; ICELAND; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030895259     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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