Telomere length and TERT functional polymorphisms are not associated with risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2642-2645

  Liu, Zhensheng ^a   Ma, Hongxia ^a   Wei, Sheng ^a   Li, Guojun ^a   Sturgis, Erich M ^a   Wei, Qingyi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TELOMERE; TERT GENE;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EID: 83055173307     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-11-0890     Document Type: Article

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