Polygenic Inheritance of Breast Cancer: Implications for Design of Association Studies

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 190-202

  Antoniou, Antonis C ^a   Easton, Douglas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case control studies; Familial cases; Sample size; Unrelated controls

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY HISTORY; FAMILY STUDY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING;

AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PEDIGREE; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0142063079     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.10261     Document Type: Article

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