Constitutive telomere length and gastric cancer risk: Case-control analysis in Chinese Han population

Cancer Science

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1300-1305

  Liu, Xiaonan ^a   Bao, Guoqiang ^b   Huo, Tingting ^a   Wang, Zizhong ^c   He, Xianli ^b   Dong, Guanglong ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING HABIT; STOMACH CANCER; TELOMERE; TELOMERE LENGTH;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TELOMERE;

EID: 67449099104     PISSN: 13479032     EISSN: 13497006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2009.01169.x     Document Type: Article

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