RAD51C germline mutations in breast and ovarian cancer patients

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Akbari, Mohammad R ^a   Tonin, Patricia ^b,c   Foulkes, William D ^b,c,d   Ghadirian, Parviz ^e   Tischkowitz, Marc ^b,d   Narod, Steven A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; DNA; RAD51 PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; RAD51C PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER FAMILY; FAMILIAL CANCER; FAMILY STUDY; FANCONI ANEMIA; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GERMANY; GERMLINE MUTATION; HUMAN; JEW; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OVARY CANCER; PAKISTAN; AGED; BREAST TUMOR; EXON; FAMILY HEALTH; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY TUMOR; ALLELE; CANCER PATIENT; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIATION; RAD51C GENE; TUMOR GENE;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXONS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650901418     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: 1465542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bcr2619     Document Type: Letter

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