Thymidylate synthase haplotype is associated with tumor recurrence in stage II and stage III colon cancer

Pharmacogenetics and Genomics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 161-168

  Lurje, Georg ^a   Zhang, Wu ^a   Yang, Dongyun ^a   Groshen, Susan ^a   Hendifar, Andrew E ^a   Husain, Hatim ^a   Nagashima, Fumio ^a   Chang, Heung M ^a   Fazzone, William ^a   Ladner, Robert D ^a   Pohl, Alexandra ^a   Ning, Yan ^a   Iqbal, Syma ^a   El Khoueiry, Anthony ^a   Lenz, Heinz Josef ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine and Preventive Medicine ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Thymidylate synthase; Tumor recurrence

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); FLUOROURACIL; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; COLON CANCER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); RECURRENCE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

EID: 38149024196     PISSN: 17446872     EISSN: 17446880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FPC.0b013e3282f4aea6     Document Type: Article

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