Heredity and prostate cancer: A study of world war II veteran twins

Prostate

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 240-245

  Page, William F ^a   Braun, M Miles ^b   Partin, Alan W ^c   Caporaso, Neil ^d   Walsh, Patrick ^c  

^a NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Genetics; Twin concordance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FAMILY HISTORY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RISK FACTOR; TWIN CONCORDANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASES IN TWINS; GENES, DOMINANT; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VETERANS;

EID: 0030731852     PISSN: 02704137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0045(19971201)33:4<240::AID-PROS3>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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