Hereditary breast cancer associated with a germline BRCA2 mutation in identical female twins with similar disease expression

Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 24-28

  Delgado, Lucía ^a   Fernández, Graciela ^a   González, Andrés ^a   De Paillerets, Brigitte Bressac ^b   Gualco, Gabriela ^a   Bombled, Johny ^a   Cataldi, Sandra ^a   Sabini, Graciela ^a   Roca, Ricardo ^a   Musé, Ignacio M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRCA2 PROTEIN; DNA; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; HORMONE RECEPTOR; KI 67 ANTIGEN; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN P53; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FAMILIAL CANCER; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GERM LINE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; ONCOGENE NEU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STOP CODON;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA2; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE;

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EID: 18344392651     PISSN: 01654608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-4608(01)00541-6     Document Type: Article

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