Colorectal cancer genetics: From candidate genes to GWAS and back again

Mutagenesis

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 141-142

  Tomlinson, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; DNA GLYCOSYLASE MUTY; PROTEIN KINASE LKB1; PROTEIN MLH1; PROTEIN MSH2; SMAD4 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; COLORECTAL ADENOMA; COLORECTAL CANCER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILIAL CANCER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MUTAGENESIS; PENETRANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; GENES, NEOPLASM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 84856880743     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: 14643804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/ger072     Document Type: Article

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