Variants in KITLG predispose to testicular germ cell cancer independently from spermatogenic function

Endocrine-Related Cancer

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 101-108

  Ferlin, Alberto ^a   Pengo, Manuel ^a   Pizzol, Damiano ^a   Carraro, Umberto ^a   Frigo, Anna Chiara ^a   Foresta, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEM CELL FACTOR;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GERM CELL TUMOR; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; SEMINOMA; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS NONSEMINOMA CANCER;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEMINOMA; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEM CELL FACTOR; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84860896305     PISSN: 13510088     EISSN: 14796821     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/ERC-11-0340     Document Type: Article

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