Risk of childhood leukemia associated with diagnostic irradiation and polymorphisms in DNA repair genes

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 495-498

  Infante Rivard, Claire ^a,b,d   Mathonnet, Géraldine ^b   Sinnett, Daniel ^b,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Childhood leukemia; Diagnostic irradiation; DNA repair genes; Gene environment interaction; Polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA REPAIR; EXON; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; X RAY;

EID: 0033948487     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.00108495     Document Type: Article

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