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SUBMITTER: Southey MC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2362179 | biostudies-other | 1999 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Southey M C MC Tesoriero A A AA Andersen C R CR Jennings K M KM Brown S M SM Dite G S GS Jenkins M A MA Osborne R H RH Maskiell J A JA Porter L L Giles G G GG McCredie M R MR Hopper J L JL Venter D J DJ
British journal of cancer 19990101 1
The frequency, in women with breast cancer, of mutations and other variants in the susceptibility gene, BRCA1, was investigated using a population-based case-control-family study. Cases were women living in Melbourne or Sydney, Australia, with histologically confirmed, first primary, invasive breast cancer, diagnosed before the age of 40 years, recorded on the state Cancer Registries. Controls were women without breast cancer, frequency-matched for age, randomly selected from electoral rolls. Fu ...[more]