Familial Cancer Risk Shared Resource

The Familial Cancer Risk Shared Resource provides Cancer Center investigators with clinical genetic expertise, data on familial genetic syndromes, germline mutations and cancer modifier genes; access to a database of genotyped probands with hereditary cancers; and clinical specimens with correlative epidemiologic data from subjects with genetically verified hereditary cancer. (NCI Thesaurus)

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