Estrogen receptor-α polymorphism in a Taiwanese clinical breast cancer population: A case-control study

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Hsiao, Wei Chiang ^a   Young, Kung Chia ^a   Lin, Shoei Loong ^b   Lin, Pin Wen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Tainan Hospital   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Estrogen receptor ; Lymph node; Metastasis; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERA GENE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELTING POINT; POPULATION RESEARCH; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; TAIWANESE; ALLELE; ASIAN; BREAST TUMOR; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; EXON; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MIDDLE AGED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TAIWAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CODON; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TAIWAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3142767437     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: 1465542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bcr770     Document Type: Article

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