Cancer susceptibility of mice with a homozygous deletion in the COOH-terminal domain of the Brca2 gene

Cancer Research

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 990-994

  McAllister, Kimberly A ^a   Bennett, L Michelle ^a   Houle, Chris D ^a   Ward, Toni ^a   Malphurs, Jason ^a   Collins, N Keith ^a   Cachafeiro, Carol ^a   Haseman, Joseph ^a   Goulding, Eugenia H ^a   Bunch, Donna ^a   Eddy, E Mitch ^a   Davis, Barbara J ^a   Wiseman, Roger W ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA2 PROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMOZYGOTE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; ONCOGENE; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BRCA2 PROTEIN; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENES, BRCA2; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; INBREEDING; MALE; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 0036174445     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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