Circadian genes and breast cancer susceptibility in rotating shift workers

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 131, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2547-2552

  Monsees, Genevieve M ^a,b,c,d   Kraft, Peter ^a,e   Hankinson, Susan E ^a,b   Hunter, David J ^a,b,e   Schernhammer, Eva S ^a,b,f  

^a CHANNING LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

breast cancer; circadian genes; night work; rotating shift work

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; NEURONAL PAS DOMAIN PROTEIN 2; ONCOPROTEIN; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NPAS2 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIFT WORKER; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; ALLELES; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK FACTORS; WORK; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 84867072835     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.27564     Document Type: Article

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