Cancer Letters
Volume 210, Issue 1 , Pages 85-94 , 8 July 2004

Increased rates of spontaneous sister chromatid exchange in lymphocytes of BRCA2+/− carriers of familial breast cancer clusters

Received 1 January 2004 ,Accepted 15 January 2004.

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doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2004.01.014

Cancer Letters
Volume 210, Issue 1 , Pages 85-94 , 8 July 2004

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