Frequency and nature of hMSH6 germline mutations in Polish patients with colorectal, endometrial and ovarian cancers [1]

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 68-70

  Suchy, Janina ^a   Kurzawski, G ^a   Jakubowska, K ^a   Rac M E ^a   Safranow, K ^a   Kladny J ^a   Rzepka Gorska I ^a   Chosia, M ^a   Czeszynska B ^a   Oszurek, O ^a   Scott, R J ^b   Lubinski J ^a  

^a POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN MSH6;

COLORECTAL CANCER; DNA DETERMINATION; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; OVARY CANCER; PHENOTYPE; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PHENOTYPE; POLAND;

EID: 33746905140     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: 13990004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2006.00630.x     Document Type: Letter

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