Telomere dysfunction: A potential cancer predisposition factor

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 95, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 1211-1218

  Wu, Xifeng ^a   Amos, Christopher I ^a   Zhu, Yong ^a   Zhao, Hua ^a   Grossman, Barton H ^a   Shay, Jerry W ^b   Luo, Sherry ^a   Hong, Waun Ki ^a   Spitz, Margaret R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME SIZE; COMET ASSAY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC STABILITY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUTAGENESIS; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELOMERE; BLADDER TUMOR; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; KIDNEY TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPHOCYTE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

DNA;

ADULT; AGED; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TELOMERE; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0042140590     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djg011     Document Type: Article

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