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Histological concordance in familial central nervous system tumors: Evidence from nationwide Swedish Family-Cancer Database.
Cancer epidemiology - 1 Jun 2015
Babaei M, Fallah M, Sundquist K, Hemminki K
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Published studies have shown that familial risks in the primary central nervous system (CNS) tumors are usually histology-specific. If genetic factors indeed determine tumor histology it would be expected that histological types would agree between affected first-degree relatives (FDRs). MATERIAL AND METHODS: This study was conducted using the nationwide Swedish Family-Cancer Database. FDR pairs were...
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