Association of FGFR2 gene polymorphisms with the risk of breast cancer in population of West Siberia

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1688-1691

  Boyarskikh, Uljana A ^a   Zarubina, Natalja A ^b   Biltueva, Julia A ^a   Sinkina, Tatjana V ^b   Voronina, Elena N ^a   Lazarev, Aleksander F ^b   Petrova, Valentina D ^b   Aulchenko, Yurii S ^c   Filipenko, Maxim L ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY AND FUNDAMENTAL MEDICINE   (Russian Federation)

^b N N BLOKHIN RUSSIAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER   (Russian Federation)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2;

ARTICLE; ASIA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INTRONS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTOR, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR, TYPE 2; SIBERIA;

EID: 70450225529     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2009.98     Document Type: Article

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