BRCA1 and BRCA2 cancer risks [7]

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 3312-3313

  Antoniou, Antonis C ^a   Pharoah, Paul D P ^a   Easton, Douglas F ^a   Evans, D Gareth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE CLUSTER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEREDITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MENOPAUSE; OVARIECTOMY; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; LIFESTYLE; MUTATION; NOTE; OVARY TUMOR; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; THEORETICAL MODEL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA1; GENES, BRCA2; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTATION; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34247280595     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2006.06.7934     Document Type: Letter

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