Birth weight-breast cancer revisited: Is the association confounded by familial factors?

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2447-2452

  Öberg, Sara ^a   Cnattingius, Sven ^a,b   Sandin, Sven ^a   Lichtenstein, Paul ^a   Iliadou, Anastasia ^a  

^a Box 281 Karolinska Institutet ^*  (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SELENIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CASE REPORT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN; TWINS; ZYGOSITY;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASES IN TWINS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 70349349046     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0123     Document Type: Article

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