BRCA1 mutations in African Americans

Human Genetics

Volumn 105, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 28-31

  Panguluri, Ramesh C K ^a,c   Brody, Lawrence C ^b   Modali, Rama ^c   Utley, Kim ^e   Adams Campbell, Lucile ^e   Day, Agnes A ^a,e   Whitfield Broome, Carolyn ^d,e   Dunston, Georgia M ^a  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c BioServe Biotechnologies Ltd   (United States)

^d HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e HOWARD UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GERM LINE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NEGRO; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; ONCOGENE; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS, MALE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA1; HUMANS; INTRONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032787112     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390051059     Document Type: Article

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