After BRCA1 and BRCA2 - What next? Multifactorial segregation analyses of three-generation, population-based Australian families affected by female breast cancer

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 420-431

  Cui, Jisheng ^a   Antoniou, Antonis C ^c   Dite, Gillian S ^a   Southey, Melissa C ^a,d   Venter, Deon J ^a,d   Easton, Douglas F ^c   Giles, Graham G ^b   McCredie, Margaret R E ^e,f   Hopper, John L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^e CANCER RESEARCH DIVISION   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035130162     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/318187     Document Type: Article

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