Folate intake, methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase polymorphisms, and breast cancer risk in women from the Malmö diet and cancer cohort

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1101-1110

  Ericson, Ulrika ^a,c   Sonestedt, Emily ^a   Ivarsson, Malin I L ^a,b   Gullberg, Bo ^a   Carlson, Joyce ^a   Olsson, Håkan ^b   Wirfält, Elisabet ^a  

^a Nutritional Epidemiology ^*  (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); FOLIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; ENZYME POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VITAMIN INTAKE;

AGE FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; DIET; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 66649088009     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-08-0401     Document Type: Article

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