The importance of a family history of breast cancer in predicting the presence of a BRCA mutation [2]

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1776-1778

  Foulkes, W D ^a   Brunet, J S ^a   Warner, E ^a   Goodwin, P J ^a   Meschino, W ^a   Narod, S A ^a   Goss, P E ^a   Glendon, G ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUTATION RATE; ONCOGENE; ONSET AGE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY;

EID: 0033358568     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302675     Document Type: Letter

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