Low-penetrance susceptibility variants in familial colorectal cancer

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1478-1483

  Niittymäki, Iina ^a   Kaasinen, Eevi ^a   Tuupanen, Sari ^a   Karhu, Auli ^a   Järvinen, Heikki ^b   Mecklin, Jukka Pekka ^c   Tomlinson, Ian P M ^d   Bernardo, Maria Chiara Di ^e   Houlston, Richard S ^e   Aaltonen, Lauri A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c JYVÄSKYLÄ CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILIAL CANCER; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FAMILY HEALTH; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; PENETRANCE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENETRANCE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77953312550     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-1320     Document Type: Article

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