Male to female ratio among offspring of BRCA1 mutation carriers

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 113-114

  Gronwald, Jacek ^a   Byrski, Tomasz ^a   Huzarski, Tomasz ^a   Narod, Steven A ^b   Lubinski, Jan ^a  

^a POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

BRCA1; Hereditary breast cancer; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN;

CANCER REGISTRY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEX RATIO; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA1; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TESTING; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX RATIO;

EID: 33646741739     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-005-9097-4     Document Type: Letter

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