Analysis of BRCA1 and BRCA2 in breast and breast/ovarian cancer families shows population substructure in the Iberian peninsula

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 29-36

  Vega, A ^a   Torres, M ^a   Martinez J I ^b   Ruiz Ponte, C ^a   Barros, F ^a   Carracedo, A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE CONXO   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN PRÍNCIPE FELIPE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; CYTOSINE; GUANOSINE; THYMINE;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FAMILIAL CANCER; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ONCOGENE; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SPAIN;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; EXONS; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA1; GENES, BRCA2; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; NEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES, HEREDITARY; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SPAIN;

FALLOPIA; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 0036381338     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003480001001014     Document Type: Article

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