BRCA1 haploinsufficiency: Consequences for breast cancer

Women's Health

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 127-129

  Salmena, Leonardo ^a   Narod, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

BRCA1; breast cancer; genomic instability; haploinsufficiency

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; DNA REPAIR; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOSS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOMATIC MUTATION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; PHYSIOLOGY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA1; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; HUMANS; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84858019368     PISSN: 17455057     EISSN: 17455065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/whe.12.2     Document Type: Article

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