Absence of rearrangements in the BRCA2 gene in human cancers

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 193-195

  Chin, S F ^a   Wang, Q ^b   Puisieux, A ^b   Caldas, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE LÉON BÉRARD   (France)

Author keywords

BRCA2; Deletion; Human cancers; Rearrangement; Southern blot

Indexed keywords

BRCA2 PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER GENETICS; CHROMOSOME 13Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0035156478     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/bjoc.2000.1577     Document Type: Article

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