Is there a correlation between the structure of hair and breast cancer or BRCA1/2 mutations?

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1623-1632

  Laaziri, Khalid ^a   Sutton, M ^a   Ghadirian, P ^b,d   Scott, A S ^c   Paradis, A J ^c   Tonin, P N ^c   Foulkes, W D ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH RISKS; TUMORS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

HUMAN HAIR;

MUTAGENESIS;

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HAIR ANALYSIS; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; BREAST TUMOR; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HAIR; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; X RAY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA1; HAIR; HUMAN; MUTATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; X-RAY DIFFRACTION; X-RAYS; HUMANS;

EID: 0037150008     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/10/301     Document Type: Article

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