No association between Parkinson disease alleles and the risk of melanoma

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 243-245

  Meng, Shasha ^a   Song, Fengju ^a   Chen, Honglei ^c   Gao, Xiang ^b   Amos, Christopher I ^d   Lee, Jeffrey E ^d   Wei, Qingyi ^d   Qureshi, Abrar A ^a,b   Han, Jiali ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOMA; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MELANOMA; PARKINSON DISEASE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84862923297     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-11-0905     Document Type: Article

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