Genetic epidemiology: Science and ethics on familial cancers

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 439-444

  Hemminki, K ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENES; PATIENT MONITORING; SAMPLING; TUMORS;

GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; COLORECTAL CANCER; DATA BASE; ETHICS; FAMILIAL CANCER; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC RISK; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COCARCINOGENESIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENVIRONMENT; ETHICS, MEDICAL; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; NEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES, HEREDITARY; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PARENTS; REGISTRIES; RISK; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; TWIN STUDIES;

EID: 0034923259     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/028418601750288145     Document Type: Review

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