Population-based study of glutathione S-transferase mu gene deletion in adult glioma cases and controls

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1431-1433

  Wiencke, John K ^a   Wrensch, Margaret R ^a   Miike, Rei ^a   Zuo, Zheng Fa ^b   Kelsey, Karl T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GLIOMA; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0031410507     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/18.7.1431     Document Type: Article

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