The HRAS1 Variable Number of Tandem Repeats and Risk of Breast Cancer

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1528-1530

  Tamimi, Rulla M ^a,b   Hankinson, Susan E ^a,b   Ding, Shaofeng ^d   Gagalang, Virgilio ^d   Larson, Garry P ^d   Spiegelman, Donna ^a   Colditz, Graham A ^a,b,c   Krontiris, Theodore G ^d   Hunter, David J ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD CENTER FOR CANCER PREVENTION   (United States)

^d CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; ONCOGENE H RAS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; TANDEM REPEAT;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 0346102478     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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