Predictive testing for familial adenomatous polyposis in a rural South Indian community

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 57-60

  Savithri, H S ^a   Venkatesha Murthy, H S ^b   Baskaran, G ^a   Appaji Rao, N ^a   Kool, D ^d   Edkins, E ^d   Wang, W ^c   Bittles, A H ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b Annapurna Clinic   (India)

^c EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Joondalup Campus ^*

Author keywords

APC gene; Familial adenomatous polyposis; Karnataka

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INDIA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENES, APC; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; PEDIGREE; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 0033910583     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0004.2000.580109.x     Document Type: Article

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