A functional tandem-repeats polymorphism in the downstream of TERT is associated with the risk of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Chinese population

BMC Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Zhang, Yang ^a,b   Zhang, Hongxing ^b   Zhai, Yun ^b   Wang, Zhifu ^a,b   Ma, Fuchao ^c   Wang, Hongxue ^c   Li, Peiyao ^b   Zhang, Ying ^b   Yu, Lixia ^b   Cui, Ying ^c   He, Fuchu ^a,b   Zhou, Gangqiao ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF RADIATION MEDICINE   (China)

^c GUANGXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; TELOMERASE; TERT PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RISK; CHINESE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; POPULATION GENETICS; TANDEM REPEAT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHINA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNX TUMOR;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHINA; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TELOMERASE;

EID: 80053175537     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-9-106     Document Type: Article

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