Genetic Variation in Telomere Maintenance Genes, Telomere Length and Breast Cancer Risk

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Shen, Jing ^a   Terry, Mary Beth ^a   Liao, Yuyan ^a   Gurvich, Irina ^a   Wang, Qiao ^a   Senie, Ruby T ^a   Santella, Regina M ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BREAST CANCER; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENE; GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS MODEL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POT1-03 GENE; RACE; SIBLING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE LENGTH; TELOMERE MAINTENANCE GENE; TELOMERE SHORTENING; TERT 07 GENE; TERT 54 GENE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SIBLINGS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

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EID: 84866103899     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044308     Document Type: Article

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