Pilot study on low penetrance breast and colorectal cancer predisposition markers in Latvia

Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 48-51

  Irmejs, Arvids ^a   Miklasevics, Edvins ^a   Boroschenko, Viktors ^a   Gardovskis, Andris ^a   Vanags, Andrejs ^a   Melbarde Gorkusa, Inga ^a   Bitina, Marianna ^a   Suchy, Janina ^b   Gardovskis, Janis ^a  

^a RIGA STRADINS UNIVERSITY   (Latvia)

^b POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Breast and colorectal; Cancer; Markers; Predisposition

Indexed keywords

CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN PROTEIN 15; CHECKPOINT KINASE 2; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LATVIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PENETRANCE;

EID: 33645732203     PISSN: 17312302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1897-4287-4-1-48     Document Type: Article

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