BRCAness revisited

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 110-120

  Lord, Christopher J ^a   Ashworth, Alan ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE INHIBITOR; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BRCA1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; BRCA2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; OLAPARIB; PHTHALAZINE DERIVATIVE; PIPERAZINE DERIVATIVE; RAD51 PROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TUMOR MARKER;

ARTICLE; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CANCER THERAPY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GERMLINE MUTATION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BIOMARKERS, TUMOR; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; PHTHALAZINES; PIPERAZINES; POLY(ADP-RIBOSE) POLYMERASE INHIBITORS; RAD51 RECOMBINASE;

EID: 84956739412     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc.2015.21     Document Type: Article

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