Gene-environment interactions in cancer: Do they exist?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1076, Issue , 2006, Pages 137-148

  Hemminki, Kari ^a,b   Försti, Asta ^a,b   Bermejo, Justo Lorenzo ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Case control study; Heritability; SNP; Statistical power; Twin

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CANCER GENETICS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC MARKER; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; RISK FACTOR; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 33845656429     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1371.029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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