Telomere length in the colon declines with age: A relation to colorectal cancer?

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 573-577

  O'Sullivan, Jacintha ^a,f   Risques, Rosa Ana ^a   Mandelson, Margaret T ^b,c   Chen, Lu ^b   Brentnall, Teresa A ^a   Bronner, Mary P ^e   MacMillan, Melissa P ^a   Feng, Ziding ^b   Siebert, Joseph R ^a,d   Potter, John D ^b   Rabinovitch, Peter S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR HEALTH STUDIES   (United States)

^d SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; COLON; COLON ADENOMA; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STROMA CELL; SURVIVAL; TELOMERE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CELL AGING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INFANT; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELOMERE; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 33645501130     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-05-0542     Document Type: Article

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