Clinical impact of unclassified variants of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes

Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 783-786

  Akbari, Mohammad R ^a   Zhang, Shiyu ^a   Fan, Isabel ^b   Royer, Robert ^a   Li, Song ^a   Risch, Harvey ^c   McLaughlin, John ^b   Rosen, Barry ^a   Sun, Ping ^a   Narod, Steven A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MISSENSE MUTATION; OVARY CANCER; PENETRANCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANADA; COHORT STUDIES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PEDIGREE; PENETRANCE; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 81055140304     PISSN: 00222593     EISSN: 14686244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2011-100305     Document Type: Article

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