The polymorphic CAG repeat of the androgen receptor gene: A potential role in breast cancer in women over 40

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 109-116

  Elhaji, Youssef A ^a,b   Gottlieb, Bruce ^a,b,c   Lumbroso, Rose ^a   Beitel, Lenore K ^a   Foulkes, William D ^a,b   Pinsky, Leonard ^a,b   Trifiro, Mark A ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c JOHN ABBOTT COLLEGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Breast cancer CAG repeats; Polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN; POLYGLUTAMINE;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GERM LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL GENETICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSACTIVATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0035213056     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012942910375     Document Type: Article

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