Cancer risks in two large breast cancer families linked to BRCA2 on chromosome 13q12-13

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 120-128

  Easton, D F ^a   Steele, L ^b   Fields, P ^b   Ormiston, W ^c   Averill, D ^d   Daly, P A ^c   McManus, R ^c   Neuhausen, S L ^b   Ford, D ^d   Wooster, R ^e   Cannon Albright, L A ^b   Stratton, M R ^e   Goldgar, D E ^b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d Section of Epidemiology

^e INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^f INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER FAMILY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CHOROID MELANOMA; CHROMOSOME 13Q; CHROMOSOME MARKER; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; LARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; OVARY CANCER; PENETRANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 16944365740     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/513891     Document Type: Article

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