Increased aneusomy and long arm deletion of chromosomes 5 and 7 in the lymphocytes of Chinese workers exposed to benzene

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1955-1961

  Zhang, Luoping ^a   Rothman, Nathaniel ^b   Wang, Yunxia ^a   Hayes, Richard B ^b   Li, Guilan ^c   Dosemeci, Mustafa ^b   Yin, Songnian ^c   Kolachana, Prema ^a   Titenko Holland, Nina ^a   Smith, Martyn T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; CARCINOGEN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CHINESE; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 5Q; CHROMOSOME 7Q; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERSTITIAL CHROMOSOME DELETION; LEUKEMOGENESIS; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TETRASOMY; TRISOMY;

EID: 0031720844     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/19.11.1955     Document Type: Article

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