Common susceptibility genes for cancer: Search for the end of the rainbow

British Medical Journal

Volumn 332, Issue 7550, 2006, Pages 1150-1152

  Baker, Stuart G ^a   Kaprio, Jaakko ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RESEARCH; CARCINOGENESIS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; NEOPLASM; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TUMOR GENE;

GENES, NEOPLASM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33646849276     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.332.7550.1150     Document Type: Note

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