Determination of the frequency of the common 657Del5 Nijmegen breakage syndrome mutation in the German population: No association with risk of breast cancer

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 393-395

  Carlomagno, Francesca ^a,b   Chang Claude, Jenny ^c   Dunning, Alison M ^a   Ponder, Bruce A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENETIC SCREENING; GERMANY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIJMEGEN BREAKAGE SYNDROME; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 8; FIBRINOGENS, ABNORMAL; GERMANY; HUMANS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RISK FACTORS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SYNDROME;

ATAXIA; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA;

EID: 0032792820     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2264(199908)25:4<393::AID-GCC12>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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