Multiplying functions for BRCA1 and BRCA2? Meeting Report, The Breakthrough Breast Cancer Second International Workshop on the Function of BRCA1 and BRCA2, Cambridge, UK, 9-10 September 1999

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Reviews on Cancer

Volumn 1470, Issue 3, 2000, Pages

  Venkitaraman, Ashok R ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BRCA1; BRCA2; Breast cancer; Cell cycle; DNA repair; Ovarian cancer; Transcription

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA REPAIR; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; ONCOGENE; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UNITED KINGDOM; WORKSHOP;

ANIMALS; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA REPAIR; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MICE; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0034679069     PISSN: 0304419X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-419X(00)00007-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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