Genetic variation at 8q24 as a susceptibility factor for prostate cancer: Definitive results from epidemiologic studies?

Cancer Research

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2905-2907

  Platz, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CHROMOSOME 8Q; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLEASON SCORE; HUMAN; NOTE; ONCOGENE C MYC; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ALLELE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHROMOSOME 8; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MALE; PROSTATE TUMOR; SWEDEN; UNITED STATES;

ALLELES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 8; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SWEDEN; UNITED STATES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34248153082     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-0737     Document Type: Note

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