ATM-heterozygous germline mutations contribute to breast cancer- susceptibility

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 494-500

  Broeks, Annegien ^a   Urbanus, Jos H M ^a   Floore, Arno N ^a   Dahler, Ellen C ^a   Klijn, Jan G M ^b   Rutgers, Emiel J Th ^a   Devilee, Peter ^c   Russell, Nicola S ^a   Van Leeuwen, Flora E ^a   Van 't Veer, Laura J ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GERM LINE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL TIME;

ATAXIA; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA;

EID: 0033911566     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302746     Document Type: Article

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