Racial differences in lung cancer [4]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 354, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 1951-1952

  Epstein, Richard J ^a   Zhao, Yongzhong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN MLH1;

BLADDER TUMOR; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARCINOGENESIS; DNA REPAIR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG CANCER; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MUTATION; NOTE; ABORIGINE; AFRICAN AMERICAN; RISK; UNITED STATES;

CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; SMOKING; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CALIFORNIA; HAWAII; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; RISK;

EID: 33646356771     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc060512     Document Type: Letter

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