BRCA1 and BRCA2: 1994 and beyond

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 665-676

  Narod, Steven A ^a   Foulkes, William D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARCINOGENESIS; DNA REPAIR; ETHNOLOGY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; BREAST TUMOR; DNA DAMAGE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MUTATION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA1; GENES, BRCA2; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MUTATION;

EID: 4544374528     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc1431     Document Type: Review

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