BRCA1 and BRCA2 status in a central Sudanese series of breast cancer patients: Interactions with genetic, ethnic and reproductive factors

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 189-199

  Awadelkarim, Khalid Dafaallah ^a,b   Aceto, Gitana ^a   Veschi, Serena ^a   Elhaj, Ahmed ^b   Morgano, Annalisa ^a   Mohamedani, Ahmed Abdalla ^b   Eltayeb, Elgaylani Abdalla ^b   Abuidris, Dafaallah ^b   Di Gioacchino, Mario ^a   Battista, Pasquale ^a   Verginelli, Fabio ^a   Cama, Alessandro ^a   Elwali, Nasr Eldin ^b   Mariani Costantini, Renato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEZIRA   (Sudan)

Author keywords

Africa; BRCA1; BRCA2; Breast cancer; Ethnicity; Germ line mutation; Lactation; Parity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST FEEDING; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LACTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENOPAUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SUDAN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS, MALE; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUDAN; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33947401079     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-006-9303-z     Document Type: Article

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