Germline mutations in breast and ovarian cancer pedigrees establish RAD51C as a human cancer susceptibility gene

Nature Genetics

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 410-414

  Meindl, Alfons ^a   Hellebrand, Heide ^a   Wiek, Constanze ^b   Erven, Verena ^b   Wappenschmidt, Barbara ^c   Niederacher, Dieter ^b   Freund, Marcel ^b   Lichtner, Peter ^d   Hartmann, Linda ^b   Schaal, Heiner ^b   Ramser, Juliane ^a   Honisch, Ellen ^b   Kubisch, Christian ^e   Wichmann, Hans E ^d   Kast, Karin ^f   Deiler, Helmut ^g   Engel, Christoph ^h   Müller Myhsok, Bertram ⁱ   Neveling, Kornelia ^j   Kiechle, Marion ^a   Mathew, Christopher G ^k   Schindler, Detlev ^j   Schmutzler, Rita K ^c   Hanenberg, Helmut ^b,l   more..

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^f DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^k KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^l RILEY HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FANCONI ANEMIA; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GERMANY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MISSENSE MUTATION; OVARY CANCER; PENETRANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAD51C GENE;

ALLELES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FANCONI ANEMIA; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; GERMANY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 77951720395     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.569     Document Type: Article

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