Heterozygous Mutations in DNA Repair Genes and Hereditary Breast Cancer: A Question of Power

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Ellis, Nathan A ^a   Offit, Kenneth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOM SYNDROME HELICASE; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; DNA; FANCONI ANEMIA GROUP C PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLM GENE; BREAST CANCER; BRIP1 GENE; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPAIR GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; EFFECT SIZE; FAMILY HISTORY; FANCC GENE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; JEW; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; PALB2 GENE; RAD51C GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FANCONI ANEMIA COMPLEMENTATION GROUP C PROTEIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; RECQ HELICASES; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 84866914867     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003008     Document Type: Article

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