HTERT cancer risk genotypes are associated with telomere length

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 368-372

  Melin, Beatrice S ^a   Nordfjäll, Katarina ^b   Andersson, Ulrika ^a   Roos, Göran ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ÖSTERSUND HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cancer; Genotypes; HTERC; HTERT; Telomere length

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER RISK; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TELOMERE; TELOMERE LENGTH;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EID: 84860331088     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.21630     Document Type: Article

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