Heterozygosity for the BLMAsh mutation and cancer risk

Cancer Research

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1769-1771

  Cleary, Sean P ^a,b   Zhang, William ^c   Di Nicola, Nando ^a   Aronson, Melyssa ^b   Aube, Jennifer ^c   Steinman, Amanda ^a   Haddad, Riad ^a,b   Redston, Mark ^d   Gallinger, Steven ^a,b   Narod, Steven A ^c   Gryfe, Robert ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BLOOM SYNDROME; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILIAL CANCER; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROZYGOSITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; BLOOM SYNDROME; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; JEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION;

EID: 0344953576     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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