Heritability of cellular radiosensitivity: A marker of low-penetrance predisposition genes in breast cancer?

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 784-794

  Roberts, Stephen A ^a   Spreadborough, A R ^a   Bulman, B ^a   Barber, J B P ^a   Evans, D G R ^a   Scott, D ^a  

^a CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IONIZING RADIATION; PENETRANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RADIOSENSITIVITY;

EID: 0033358577     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302544     Document Type: Article

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