Editorial: A risky business-identifying susceptibility loci for lung cancer

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 102, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 920-923

  Gazdar, Adi F ^a   Boffetta, Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYPICAN; GLYPICAN 5; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CHROMOSOME 5P; CHROMOSOME 6P; CHROMOSOME 6Q; DNA SEQUENCE; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMOKING; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CHROMOSOME 15; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME 6; ETHNOLOGY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LUNG TUMOR; NOTE; RISK FACTOR; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 5; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

EID: 77954701450     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djq220     Document Type: Editorial

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