A functional variant of tandem repeats in human telomerase gene was associated with survival of patients with early stages of non-small cell lung cancer

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 3779-3785

  Wang, Luo ^a   Wang, Li E ^a   Mao, Li ^a   Spitz, Margaret R ^a   Wei, Qingyi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RNA, MESSENGER; SURVIVAL RATE; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TELOMERASE;

EID: 77954704732     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: 15573265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-10-0269     Document Type: Article

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