Repetitive element hypomethylation in blood leukocyte DNA and cancer incidence, prevalence, and mortality in elderly individuals: The Normative Aging Study

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 437-447

  Zhu, Zhong Zheng ^a,b   Sparrow, David ^c   Hou, Lifang ^a   Tarantini, Letizia ^a   Bollati, Valentina ^a   Litonjua, Augusto A ^a   Zanobetti, Antonella ^a   Vokonas, Pantel ^c   Wright, Robert O ^a   Baccarelli, Andrea ^a   Schwartz, Joel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood; Cancer risk; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Repetitive elements

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AGED; ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DNA METHYLATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOMA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PYROSEQUENCING; SKIN CANCER; SKIN MELANOMA; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA METHYLATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEUKOCYTES; NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 79955779160     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-010-9715-2     Document Type: Article

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