Hallmarks of 'BRCAness' in sporadic cancers

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 814-819

  Turner, Nicholas ^a   Tutt, Andrew ^a   Ashworth, Alan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; CYTOKERATIN; CYTOKERATIN 14; CYTOKERATIN 17; CYTOKERATIN 5; CYTOKERATIN 6; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA CROSS LINKING; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FAMILIAL CANCER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ONCOGENE; OVARY CANCER; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA, NEOPLASM; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FANCONI ANEMIA; FANCONI ANEMIA COMPLEMENTATION GROUP D2 PROTEIN; FANCONI ANEMIA COMPLEMENTATION GROUP F PROTEIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, BRCA1; GENES, BRCA2; HUMANS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 4944229642     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc1457     Document Type: Review

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