The predominance of the environment over genes in cancer causation: Implications for genetic epidemiology

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1037-1039

  Le Marchand, Loïc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; CYTOCHROME P450 1A2;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; COLORECTAL CANCER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; JAPAN; LUNG CANCER; MORBIDITY; NOTE; OBESITY; PENETRANCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING;

CAUSALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 18544372136     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-04-0816     Document Type: Note

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