Reduced DNA repair capacity in breast cancer patients and unaffected individuals from breast cancer families

Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 65-73

  Rao, N Meenakshi ^a   Pai, Sanjay A ^a   Shinde, S R ^a   Ghosh, S N ^a  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER FAMILY; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; DNA REPAIR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANEUPLOIDY; APHIDICOLIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHROMOSOME FRAGILE SITES; CHROMOSOME FRAGILITY; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DNA REPAIR; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOTIC INDEX; PEDIGREE;

EID: 0032054436     PISSN: 01654608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-4608(97)00303-8     Document Type: Article

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