Prostate cancer risk: Associations with ultraviolet radiation, tyrosinase and melanocortin-1 receptor genotypes

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 85, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1504-1509

  Luscombe, C J ^a   French, M E ^a   Liu, S ^a   Saxby, M F ^a   Jones, P W ^b   Fryer, A A ^b   Strange, R C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Polymorphism; Prostate cancer; Susceptibility; Ultraviolet radiation

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; CYSTEINE; GLUTAMINE; HISTIDINE; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; METHIONINE; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; TRYPTOPHAN; VALINE; VITAMIN D RECEPTOR;

AGED; ALLELISM; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; SKIN PIGMENTATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, CALCITRIOL; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; RECEPTORS, MELANOCORTIN; RISK FACTORS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0035900805     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/bjoc.2001.2097     Document Type: Article

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