Discriminating gene expression signature of radiation-induced thyroid tumors after either external exposure or internal contamination

Genes

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-34

  Ory, Catherine ^a   Ugolin, Nicolas ^a   Schlumberger, Martin ^b   Hofman, Paul ^c,d,e   Chevillard, Sylvie ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE   (France)

^b INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^e PASTEUR HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Molecular epidemiology; Radiation induced tumors; Thyroid; Transcriptomic signature

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131;

CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CELL STRESS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MARKER GENE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PROTEOMICS; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RADIOSENSITIVITY; REVIEW; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID TUMOR; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

EID: 84858815384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/genes3010019     Document Type: Review

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