A case-control study of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and polymorphisms in the TGF-β and receptor genes

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 819-823

  Dai, Liping ^a,b   Gast, Andreas ^a   Horska, Alexandra ^a   Schrappe, Martin ^c   Bartram, Claus R ^d   Hemminki, Kari ^a,e   Kumar, Rajiv ^a   Bermejo, Justo Lorenzo ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia; Genotypes; Imputation; Polymorphisms; Susceptibility; TGF

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ALLELE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CELL LINEAGE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE MAP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; RISK REDUCTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 67650505622     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.21971     Document Type: Article

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