Allelic imbalance on chromosomes 13 and 17 and mutation analysis of BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes in monozygotic twins concordant for breast cancer

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 27-33

  Försti, Asta ^a   Luo, Liping ^a   Vorechovsky, Igor ^a   Söderberg, Magnus ^b   Lichtenstein, Paul ^a   Hemminki, Kari ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; MICROSATELLITE DNA; PARAFFIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER REGISTRY; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME ARM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; DNA DETERMINATION; EXON; EXTRACTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; MITOSIS; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SAMPLE; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SWEDEN; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; TWIN CONCORDANCE;

EID: 0035138372     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/22.1.27     Document Type: Article

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