Mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 in breast cancer families: Are there more breast cancer-susceptibility genes?

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 486-495

  Serova, Olga M ^a,b   Mazoyer, Sylvie ^a,b   Puget, Nadine ^a,b   Dubois, Valérie ^a   Tonin, Patricia ^c   Shugart, Yin Y ^a   Goldgar, David ^a   Narod, Steven A ^d   Lynch, Henry T ^e   Lenoir, Gilbert M ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN CANCÉROLOGIE DE LYON   (France)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d WOMEN S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE BREAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS, MALE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 16944361810     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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