Significant increase in risk of gastroesophageal cancer is associated with interaction between promoter polymorphisms in thymidylate synthase and serum folate status

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1430-1435

  Tan, Wen ^a   Miao, Xiaoping ^a   Wang, Li ^b   Yu, Chunyuan ^a   Xiong, Ping ^a   Liang, Gang ^a   Sun, Tong ^a   Zhou, Yifeng ^a   Zhang, Xuemei ^a   Li, Hui ^b   Lin, Dongxin ^a  

^a CANCER HOSPITAL   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; PRIMER DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARCINOGENESIS; CARDIA CARCINOMA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STOMACH CANCER; BLOOD; CHINA; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMOKING; STOMACH TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; CHINA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

EID: 24944566882     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: 14602180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgi090     Document Type: Article

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