Environmental and heritable factors in the causation of cancer: Analyses of cohorts of twins from Sweden, Denmark, and Finland

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 343, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 78-85

  Lichtenstein, Paul ^a   Holm, Niels V ^b   Verkasalo, Pia K ^c   Iliadou, Anastasia ^a   Kaprio, Jaakko ^c,d   Koskenvuo, Markku ^c,e   Pukkala, Eero ^f   Skytthe, Axel ^b   Hemminki, Kari ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^f FINNISH CANCER REGISTRY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETICS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECESSIVE GENE; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DENMARK; DISEASES IN TWINS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; RISK; SWEDEN; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0034644185     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200007133430201     Document Type: Article

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