Genetic heterogeneity of 8q24 region in susceptibility to cancer

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 278-279

  Wokołorczyk, Dominika ^a   Lubiński, Jan ^a   Narod, Steven A ^b   Cybulski, Cezary ^a  

^a POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b WOMEN S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CHROMOSOME 8Q; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; COLORECTAL CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LETTER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROSTATE CANCER; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 8; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC, B-CELL; MALE; NEOPLASMS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 60749094275     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djn472     Document Type: Letter

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