Journal of Oncology
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 297671, 11 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/297671
Research Article

Germline Mutations and Polymorphisms in the Origins of Cancers in Women

1The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
2Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
3Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA

Received 23 June 2009; Accepted 14 November 2009

Academic Editor: Tian-Li Wang

Copyright © 2010 Kim M. Hirshfield et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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