Birth characteristics and risk of prostate cancer: The contribution of genetic factors

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2422-2426

  Cnattingius, Sven ^a,b   Lundberg, Frida ^a   Sandin, Sven ^a   Grönberg, Henrik ^a   Iliadou, Anastasia ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SWEDEN; TWINS; ZYGOSITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SWEDEN; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 70349324676     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0366     Document Type: Article

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