Low incidence of BRCA2 mutations in breast carcinoma and other cancers

Nature Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 241-244

  Teng, David H F ^a   Bogden, Robert ^a   Mitchell, Jeffrey ^a   Baumgard, Michelle ^a   Bell, Russell ^a   Berry, Simin ^a   Davis, Thaylon ^a   Ha, Phuong C ^a   Kehrer, Robert ^a   Jammulapati, Srikanth ^a   Chen, Qian ^a   Offit, Kenneth ^b   Skolnick, Mark H ^a   Tavtigian, Sean V ^a   Jhanwar, Suresh ^b   Swedlund, Brad ^a   Wong, Alexander K C ^a   Kamb, Alexander ^a  

^a Myriad Genetic Laboratories   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 9344251625     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0696-241     Document Type: Article

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