Linkage of a pedigree drawing program and database to a program for determining BRCA mutation carrier probability

Familial Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 313-316

  Sand, Sharon R ^a   DeRam, David S ^b   MacDonald, Deborah J ^a   Blazer, Kathleen R ^a   Weitzel, Jeffrey N ^a  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Progency Software LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer genetics; Pedigree; Risk estimation

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC LINKAGE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ONCOGENE; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DATABASES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; PEDIGREE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 29144518664     PISSN: 13899600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10689-005-8849-y     Document Type: Article

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