Further evidence for the existence of major susceptibility of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in the region near HLA-A locus in Southern Chinese

Journal of Translational Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Zhao, Manli ^a   Cai, Hongbing ^a   Li, Xin ^a,a   Zheng, Hang ^a   Yang, Xuexi ^a   Fang, Weiyi ^a   Zhang, Longcheng ^b   Wei, Ganguan ^b   Li, Ming ^a   Yao, Kaitai ^a  

^a SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b The 303rd Hospital of PLA   (China)

Author keywords

Human leukocyte antigen (HLA); Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN; HLA G ANTIGEN; PROTEIN HCG9; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CHINA; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HLA SYSTEM; HOSPITAL BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ADULT; ASIAN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MALE; NASOPHARYNX TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHINA; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HLA-A ANTIGENS; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84858737321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14795876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1479-5876-10-57     Document Type: Article

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