Risk of breast and prostate cancer is not associated with increased homozygosity in outbred populations

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 909-914

  Enciso Mora, Victor ^a   Hosking, Fay J ^a   Houlston, Richard S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

breast; cancer; homozygosity; prostate; risk

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER RISK; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOME; HEMIZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARKER GENE; POPULATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UNIPARENTAL DISOMY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HOMOZYGOTE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK;

GENETIC MARKER;

EID: 77954955955     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2010.53     Document Type: Article

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