An alternative, non-intrauterine hypothesis, based on maternal mitochondrial oocyte inheritance, to explain inconsistent findings of birth weight on (breast) cancer risk (multiple letters)

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1817-1821

  Van Noord, P A H ^a   Sanderson, M ^b   Shu, X O ^c   Zheng, W ^c   Vatten, L J ^d   Nilsen, T I L ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^e Kreftforeningen   (Norway)

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Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CELL NUCLEUS DNA; CIRCULAR DNA; FREE RADICAL; HISTONE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ADOLESCENCE; ADULTHOOD; AGING; ANEUPLOIDY; APOPTOSIS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLASTOCYST; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CELL AGING; CELL CYCLE; CELL DEATH; CELL FUNCTION; CELL METABOLISM; CELL VIABILITY; CHILDBIRTH; CHILDHOOD; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CONCEPTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA REPAIR; EMBRYO CELL; ENERGY YIELD; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GASTRULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENOME IMPRINTING; GROWTH; HETEROPLASMY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; LETTER; MATERNAL AGE; MATURATION; MEIOSIS; MITOCHONDRION; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NIDATION; NORWAY; NUTRIENT; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PLACENTA WEIGHT; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; UTERUS;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL AGE; OOCYTES; RISK FACTORS; UTERUS;

EID: 0037534447     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6600978     Document Type: Letter

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