Sex ratio distortion in offspring of families with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutant alleles: An ascertainment bias phenomenon?

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 273-277

  Balmaña, Judith ^a,b   Díez, Orland ^b   Campos, Berta ^b   Majewski, Magdalena ^a   Sanz, Judit ^b   Alonso, Carmen ^b   Baiget, Montserrat ^b   Garber, Judy E ^a  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

BRCA1; BRCA2; Hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILIAL CANCER; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BOSTON; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA1; GENES, BRCA2; GENETIC SCREENING; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES, HEREDITARY; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PEDIGREE; SEX RATIO; SPAIN;

EID: 24644524620     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-005-3377-x     Document Type: Article

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