Confounding effects in "A six-gene signature predicting breast cancer lung metastasis": Reply

Cancer Research

Volumn 69, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 9507-9511

  Driouch, Keltouma ^a   Bonin, Florian ^a   Sin, Soraya ^a   Clairac, Géraldine ^a   Lidereau, Rosette ^a,b  

^a CENTRE RENÉ HUGUENIN   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER RELAPSE; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS;

EID: 73649087670     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-2688     Document Type: Article

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