Validation of micronuclei frequency in peripheral blood lymphocytes as early cancer risk biomarker in a nested case-control study

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 639, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 27-34

  Murgia, Elena ^a   Ballardin, Michela ^a   Bonassi, Stefano ^b   Rossi, Anna Maria ^a   Barale, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biological markers; Cancer risk; Case control study; Micronucleus test; Validation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ITALY; LOG RANK TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OCCUPATION; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; POPULATION; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSE OF DEATH; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; ITALY; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 39249083917     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2007.10.010     Document Type: Article

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