A comparison of folic acid deficiency-induced genomic instability in lymphocytes of breast cancer patients and normal non-cancer controls from a Chinese population in Yunnan

Mutagenesis

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-47

  Wang, Xu ^a,b   Wu, Xiayu ^b   Liang, Ziqing ^b   Huang, Yunchao ^d   Fenech, Michael ^c   Xue, Jinglun ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YUNNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d KUNMING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CELL NUCLEUS; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOTOXICITY; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DAMAGE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; NECROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHINA; CYTOKINESIS; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; POPULATION GROUPS;

EID: 33344465648     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/gei069     Document Type: Article

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