Leukocyte telomere length, breast cancer risk in the offspring: The relations with father's age at birth

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 149-153

  Arbeev, Konstantin G ^a   Hunt, Steven C ^b   Kimura, Masayuki ^c   Aviv, Abraham ^c   Yashin, Anatoliy I ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Medical School   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Daughters; Father's age; Offspring; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAUGHTER; FATHER CHILD RELATION; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE TELOMERE LENGTH; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; PATERNAL AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROGENY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TELOMERE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATERNAL AGE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK; TELOMERE;

EID: 79955776397     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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