High prevalence of the 999del5 mutation in icelandic breast and ovarian cancer patients

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 3663-3665

  Johannesdottir, Gudrun ^a   Gudmundsson, Julius ^a   Bergthorsson, Jon T ^a   Arason, Adalgeir ^a   Agnarsson, Bjarni A ^a   Eiriksdottir, Gudny ^a   Johannsson, Oskar T ^b   Borg, Ake ^b   Ingvarsson, Sigurdur ^a   Easton, Douglas F ^c   Egilsson, Valgardur ^a   Barkardottir, Rosa Björk ^a  

^a LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; ICELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVARY CANCER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASE SEQUENCE; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 9444248601     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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