A common variant in BRCA2 is associated with both breast cancer risk and prenatal viability

Nature Genetics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 362-364

  Healey, Catherine S ^a   Dunning, Alison M ^a   Dawn Teare, M ^a   Chase, Diana ^b   Parker, Louise ^c   Burn, John ^c   Chang Claude, Jenny ^d   Mannermaa, Arto ^e   Kataja, Vesa ^e   Huntsman, David G ^f   Pharoah, Paul D P ^a   Luben, Robert N ^a   Easton, Douglas F ^b   Ponder, Bruce A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTLAKES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^e KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^f CHILDREN S AND WOMEN S HEALTH CENTRE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA REPAIR; EXONS; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MICE; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES, HEREDITARY; ODDS RATIO; RISK; SEX FACTORS; SEX RATIO; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033768238     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/81691     Document Type: Article

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