DNA repair gene XRCC3 241Met variant is not associated with risk of cutaneous malignant melanoma

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 11, Issue 10 I, 2002, Pages 1142-1143

  Duan, Zhigang ^a   Shen, Hongbing ^a   Lee, Jeffrey E ^a   Gershenwald, Jeffrey E ^a   Ross, Merrick I ^a   Mansfield, Paul F ^a   Duvic, Madeleine ^a   Strom, Sara S ^a   Spitz, Margaret R ^a   Wei, Qingyi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GENE PRODUCT; METHIONINE; PROTEIN XRCC3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA REPAIR; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CODON; DNA PRIMERS; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RISK FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0036802254     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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