Racial variation in umbilical cord blood sex steroid hormones and the insulin-like growth factor axis in African-American and white female neonates

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 445-454

  Agurs Collins, Tanya ^a   Rohrmann, Sabine ^b   Sutcliffe, Catherine ^c   Bienstock, Jessica L ^d   Monsegue, Deborah ^e   Akereyeni, Folasade ^f   Bradwin, Gary ^g   Rifai, Nader ^g   Pollak, Michael N ^h   Platz, Elizabeth A ^c,i  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e HOWARD UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^f HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; IGF axis; Sex steroid hormones; Umbilical cord blood

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; PRASTERONE SULFATE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 3; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESTRADIOL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN 3; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR II; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PILOT PROJECTS; SEX FACTORS; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TESTOSTERONE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862496710     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-011-9893-6     Document Type: Article

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