Is BRCA2 c.9079 G > A a predisposing variant for early onset breast cancer?

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 177-179

  Hammet, Fleur ^a   George, Jessica ^a   Tesoriero, Andrea A ^a   Jenkins, Mark A ^a   Schroen, Christopher ^a   Smith, Letitia ^a   Grabosch Meehan, Anke ^a   Dite, Gillian ^a   McCredie, Margaret R E ^b   Giles, Graham G ^c   Tavtigian, Sean V ^d   Hopper, John L ^a   Southey, Melissa C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^d INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA2 PROTEIN;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA2; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 42149169725     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-007-9624-6     Document Type: Letter

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