Breast and ovarian cancer

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 348, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 2339-2347

  Wooster, Richard ^a   Weber, Barbara L ^b  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; CONTIG; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GENE PRODUCT; GENOMIC DNA; PROTEIN BRCA3; TAMOXIFEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT KINASE GENE; CHROMOSOME 13Q; CHROMOSOME 17Q; CHROMOSOME 3P; CHROMOSOME 9; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MARKER GENE; ONCOGENE; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY CANCER; PENETRANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, BRCA1; GENES, BRCA2; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PENETRANCE; PROTEOMICS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0037685164     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra012284     Document Type: Review

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