A six-nucleotide insertion-deletion polymorphism in the CASP8 promoter is associated with risk of coal workers' pneumoconiosis

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part A: Current Issues

Volumn 72, Issue 11-12, 2009, Pages 712-716

  Ni, Chunhui ^a   Ye, Yang ^a   Wang, Meilin ^a   Qian, Haiyang ^a   Song, Zhifang ^b   Jia, Xiaomin ^b   Zhou, Jianwei ^a  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b General Hospital of Xuzhou Mining Business Group Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 8;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTHRACOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHINA; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; RISK FACTOR; TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHRACOSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CASPASE 8; CHINA; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RISK FACTORS; SEQUENCE DELETION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67449093467     PISSN: 15287394     EISSN: 10872620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15287390902841102     Document Type: Article

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