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Genetic epidemiology of early onset breast cancer.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Dec 1994
Eccles D, Marlow A, Royle G, Collins A, Morton N E
Abstract excerpt
Risks for breast cancer when there is a family history of the disease are usually calculated using data from segregation analyses which favour a single dominant gene with high penetrance. There are, however, at least three loci known to be associated with familial breast cancer (p53, BRCA1, and an as yet unpublished locus) and the frequencies and penetrances of these genes are not likely to be the same. We have...
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