Copy number variations are not modifiers of phenotypic expression in a pair of identical twins carrying a BRCA1 mutation

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 901-905

  Lasa, A ^a   Cajal, T Ramóny ^a   Llort, G ^b   Suela, J ^c   Cigudosa, J C ^c   Cornet, M ^a,d   Alonso, C ^a   Barnadas, A ^a   Baiget, M ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Servicio de Cirugía General Y Aparato Digestivo   (Spain)

^c NIMGenetics   (Spain)

^d CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE ENFERMEDADES RARAS CIBERER   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

BRCA1; BRCA2; Copy number variation; Monozygotic twins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CASE REPORT; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; EXON; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; ONCOGENE; OVARY CANCER; PENETRANCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BREAST TUMOR; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY TUMOR; PEDIGREE; SPAIN; TWINS;

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; SPAIN; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 79952117877     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-010-0877-0     Document Type: Article

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