No association between TERT-CLPTM1L single nucleotide polymorphism rs401681 and mean telomere length or cancer risk

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1862-1865

  Pooley, Karen A ^a   Tyrer, Jonathan ^b   Shah, Mitul ^b   Driver, Kristy E ^b   Leyland, Jean ^a   Brown, Judith ^a   Audley, Tina ^a   McGuffog, Lesley ^a   Ponder, Bruce A J ^c   Pharoah, Paul D P ^b   Easton, Douglas F ^a   Dunning, Alison M ^b  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c CANCER RESEARCH UK CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; CLPTM1L PROTEIN, HUMAN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TELOMERASE; TERT PROTEIN, HUMAN; TUMOR MARKER; TUMOR PROTEIN;

AGE; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CHROMOSOME SIZE; COLORECTAL CANCER; GENDER; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TELOMERE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BREAST TUMOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMISTRY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK FACTORS; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954522715     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-10-0281     Document Type: Article

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