Linkage between androgen receptor gene CAG trinucleotide repeat length and testicular germ cell cancer histological type and clinical stage

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 2152-2158

  Giwercman, Aleksander ^a   Lundin, Kristina B ^a   Eberhard, Jakob ^a   Ståhl, Olof ^a   Cwikiel, Magdalena ^a   Cavallin Ståhl, Eva ^a   Giwercman, Yvonne Lundberg ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; CAG repeat; Testicular germ cell cancer

Indexed keywords

ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; DNA; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MIXED MULLERIAN TUMOR; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINOMA; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEMINOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 4444380334     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2004.06.004     Document Type: Article

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