Breast cancer genes: Therapeutic strategies

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 833, Issue , 1997, Pages 34-41

  Holt, Jeffrey T ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER GENETICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; FAMILIAL CANCER; GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; ONCOGENE; OVARY CANCER; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0031590714     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48590.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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