Characterization of the association between 8q24 and colon cancer: Gene-environment exploration and meta-analysis

BMC Cancer

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hutter, Carolyn M ^a   Slattery, Martha L ^b   Duggan, David J ^c   Muehling, Jill ^c   Curtin, Karen ^b   Hsu, Li ^a   Beresford, Shirley A A ^a   Rajkovic, Aleksandar ^d   Sarto, Gloria E ^e   Marshall, James R ^f   Hammad, Nazik ^g   Wallace, Robert ^h   Makar, Karen W ^a   Prentice, Ross L ^a   Caan, Bette J ⁱ   Potter, John D ^a   Peters, Ulrike ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

ⁱ DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CHROMOSOME 8Q; COLON CANCER; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SELF REPORT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHROMOSOME 8; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON TUMOR; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; LIFESTYLE; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 8; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649595110     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-10-670     Document Type: Article

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