Cancer as a Complex Phenotype: Pattern of Cancer Distribution within and beyond the Nuclear Family

It's not often that an entire nation's genealogy and cancer records are available. But they are in Iceland, and have been used to determine how often cancers occur in families

Bibliographic Details
Published in:	PLoS Medicine
Main Authors:	Amundadottir, Laufey T, Thorvaldsson, Sverrir, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F, Sulem, Patrick, Kristjansson, Kristleifur, Arnason, Sigurdur, Gulcher, Jeffrey R, Bjornsson, Johannes, Kong, Augustine, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Stefansson, Kari
Format:	Text
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science 2004
Subjects:	Research Article Iceland
Online Access:	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539051 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15630470 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0010065

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Summary:	It's not often that an entire nation's genealogy and cancer records are available. But they are in Iceland, and have been used to determine how often cancers occur in families