High prevalence of two BRCA1 mutations, 4154delA and 5382insC, in Latvia

Familial Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 77-84

  Tikhomirova, Laima ^a   Sinicka, Olga ^a   Smite, Dagnija ^a   Eglitis, Janis ^b   Hodgson, Shirley V ^c   Stengrevics, Aivars ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

^b RIGA EAST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Latvia)

^c S Thames Regional Genetics Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BRCA1 mutations; Breast and ovarian cancer; Disease manifestation; DNA testing; Latvia

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; LATVIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; OVARY CANCER; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA1; GENOTYPE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; LATVIA; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE;

EID: 21244504690     PISSN: 13899600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10689-004-2758-3     Document Type: Article

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