Functional and genomic approaches reveal an ancient CHEK2 allele associated with breast cancer in the Ashkenazi Jewish population.

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Published in Hum Mol Genet on January 13, 2005

Authors

Avraham Shaag1, Tom Walsh, Paul Renbaum, Tomas Kirchhoff, Khedoudja Nafa, Stacey Shiovitz, Jessica B Mandell, Piri Welcsh, Ming K Lee, Nathan Ellis, Kenneth Offit, Ephrat Levy-Lahad, Mary-Claire King

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine (Medical Genetics) and Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7720, USA.

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