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

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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
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Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2004
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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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spelling ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:539051 2023-05-15T16:46:43+02:00 Cancer as a Complex Phenotype: Pattern of Cancer Distribution within and beyond the Nuclear Family 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 2004-12 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 en eng Public Library of Science http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539051 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15630470 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0010065 Copyright: © 2004 Amundadottir et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited CC-BY Research Article Text 2004 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0010065 2013-08-30T03:45:32Z 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 Text Iceland PubMed Central (PMC) PLoS Medicine 1 3 e65
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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
Cancer as a Complex Phenotype: Pattern of Cancer Distribution within and beyond the Nuclear Family
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author 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
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Thorvaldsson, Sverrir
Gudbjartsson, Daniel F
Sulem, Patrick
Kristjansson, Kristleifur
Arnason, Sigurdur
Gulcher, Jeffrey R
Bjornsson, Johannes
Kong, Augustine
Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur
Stefansson, Kari
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title Cancer as a Complex Phenotype: Pattern of Cancer Distribution within and beyond the Nuclear Family
title_short Cancer as a Complex Phenotype: Pattern of Cancer Distribution within and beyond the Nuclear Family
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title_fullStr Cancer as a Complex Phenotype: Pattern of Cancer Distribution within and beyond the Nuclear Family
title_full_unstemmed Cancer as a Complex Phenotype: Pattern of Cancer Distribution within and beyond the Nuclear Family
title_sort cancer as a complex phenotype: pattern of cancer distribution within and beyond the nuclear family
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