Lack of a relationship between the common 18q24 variant rs12953717 and risk of chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 271-272

  Broderick, Peter ^a   Sellick, Gabrielle ^a   Fielding, Sarah ^a   Catovsky, Daniel ^a   Houlston, Richard ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia; SMAD7; SNP; Susceptibility

Indexed keywords

DNA; SMAD7 PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHROMOSOME 18Q; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC, B-CELL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SMAD7 PROTEIN;

EID: 38849197477     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: 10292403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10428190701817290     Document Type: Article

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