Genetic epidemiology of multistage carcinogenesis.

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Summary

The logarithms of the slopes suggest large differences in the apparent numbers of mutations involved in different cancers, and the number of mutations required appears to be less in familial breast cancer compared to sporadic breast cancer.

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review
Published
2001-01-25
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Keywords

Penetrance, Breast cancer, Cancer, Heritability, Offspring

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