Hereditary predisposition to cancer

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 833, Issue , 1997, Pages 58-67

  Knudson, Alfred G ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA REPAIR; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HEREDITY; ONCOGENE; PUBERTY; SOMATIC MUTATION; STEM CELL; TISSUE GROWTH; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 0031590715     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48593.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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