Polygenic or Pollyanna?

Nature Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 328-330

  Foulkes, William D ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; FAMILIAL CANCER; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ALLELES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; RISK FACTORS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0036110364     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0402-328     Document Type: Short Survey

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