Genome wide screening of CAG trinucleotide repeat lengths in breast cancer

Disease Markers

Volumn 22, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 343-349

  Jarjanazi, Hamdi ^b,c   Li, Hong ^b   Andrulis, Irene L ^b,c,d   Ozcelik, Hilmi ^a,b,c  

^a Mount Sinai Hospital ^*  (Canada)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; CAG repeats; Rapid expansion detection; Trinucleotide repeat expansions

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CANCER TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FEMALE; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; TUMOR GENE;

EID: 33847391668     PISSN: 02780240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2006/951857     Document Type: Article

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