Esophageal cancer risk in relation to GGC and CAG trinucleotide repeat lengths in the androgen receptor gene

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 38-45

  Dietzsch, Erin ^a   Laubscher, Ria ^b   Parker, M Iqbal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor gene; CAG and GGC repeat lengths; Esophageal cancer risk

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CYTOSINE; GUANINE;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SOUTH AFRICA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ALLELES; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, NEOPLASM; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGUS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RISK FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0042415394     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.11314     Document Type: Article

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