Common genetic variants in pre-microRNAs are associated with risk of coal workers' pneumoconiosis

Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-17

  Wang, Meilin ^a   Ye, Yang ^a   Qian, Haiyang ^a   Song, Zhifang ^b   Jia, Xiaomin ^b   Zhang, Zhengdong ^a   Zhou, Jianwei ^a   Ni, Chunhui ^a  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b General Hospital of Xuzhou Mining Business Group Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Coal workers pneumoconiosis; Genetic susceptibility; Molecular epidemiology; Pre microRNAs

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

AGED; ARTICLE; COAL WORKER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DUST EXPOSURE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMOKING;

AGED; ANTHRACOSIS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BASE SEQUENCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHINA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK; RNA PRECURSORS;

EID: 76149137729     PISSN: 14345161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jhg.2009.112     Document Type: Article

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