Ancestry reported by white adults with cutaneous melanoma and control subjects in central Alabama

BMC Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Acton, Ronald T ^a,b,c   Barton, Ellen H ^a,d   Hollowell, William W ^a   Dreibelbis, Amy L ^a   Go, Rodney C P ^c   Barton, James C ^b,d  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d SOUTHERN IRON DISORDERS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA DR ANTIGEN; HLA DRB1 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EUROPE; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOTHESIS; INTERVIEW; IRELAND; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; POLAND; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TEST; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; SKIN TUMOR; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALABAMA; AUSTRALIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HLA-DRB1 CHAINS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IRELAND; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOTLAND; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 13144292428     PISSN: 14712407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-4-47     Document Type: Article

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