A tetranucleotide repeat polymorphism in the CYP19 gene and breast cancer susceptibility in a Greek population exposed and not exposed to pesticides

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 267-271

  Dialyna, Ioanna ^a   Tzanakakis, George ^a   Dolapsakis, George ^b   Tsatsakis, Aristidis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b General Hospital of Sitia   (Greece)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; CYP19 gene; Pesticides; Tetranucleotide repeat polymorphism

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; PESTICIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AROMATASE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GREECE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 2942571343     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2004.01.024     Document Type: Article

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