A family-based genetic association study of variants in estrogen-metabolism genes COMT and CYP1B1 and breast cancer risk

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 121-131

  Ahsan, Habibul ^a,b   Chen, Yu ^a   Whittemore, Alice S ^c   Kibriya, Muhammad G ^a   Gurvich, Irina ^a   Senie, Ruby T ^a,b   Santella, Regina M ^a,b  

^a Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; COMT; CYP1B1; Estrogen metabolism genes; Genetic epidemiology; Genetic polymorphism

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; CYTOCHROME P450 1B1;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESTROGEN METABOLISM; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ARYL HYDROCARBON HYDROXYLASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 3342994396     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BREA.0000025401.60794.68     Document Type: Article

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