Ethnicity as a risk factor for Helicobacter pylori infection and gastric cancer: Environment, genetics, or both?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 628-631

  Talley, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ALLELE; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENT; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; NEW ZEALAND; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STOMACH TUMOR;

AGE FACTORS; ALLELES; ENVIRONMENT; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030253489     PISSN: 00048291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1996.tb02930.x     Document Type: Article

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