Design considerations for genomic association studies: Importance of gene-environment interactions

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 263-267

  Marchand, Loïc Le ^a   Wilkens, Lynne R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BRCA1 PROTEIN;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; COLORECTAL CANCER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LIFESTYLE; NEOPLASM; NOTE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER;

ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; NEOPLASMS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 39449083161     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-07-0402     Document Type: Note

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