Mammary cancer susceptibility: Human genes and rodent models

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 817-831

  Szpirer, Claude ^a   Szpirer, Josiane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER RESISTANCE; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; DNA DAMAGE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PENETRANCE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, ANIMAL; MICE; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; RATS;

RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 36849035772     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: 14321777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00335-007-9073-x     Document Type: Review

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