Use of monozygotic twins in search for breast cancer susceptibility loci

Twin Research

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 251-259

  Försti, Asta ^a   Jin, Qianren ^a   Sundqvist, Lena ^a   Söderberg, Magnus ^b   Hemminki, Kari ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALLELIC IMBALANCE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 13Q; CHROMOSOME 16Q; CHROMOSOME 17P; CHROMOSOME 17Q; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELES; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 1; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 13; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA1; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; SWEDEN; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0035714194     PISSN: 13690523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/1369052012470     Document Type: Article

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