A polymorphism in the CYP17 gene increases the risk of breast cancer

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1063-1065

  Feigelson, Heather Spencer ^a   Coetzee, Gerhard A ^a   Kolonel, Laurence N ^b   Ross, Ronald K ^a   Henderson, Brian E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENARCHE; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MENARCHE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RISK; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE;

EID: 0030888153     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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