Population-Based Estimate of Prostate Cancer Risk for Carriers of the HOXB13 Missense Mutation G84E

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  MacInnis, Robert J ^a,b   Severi, Gianluca ^a,b   Baglietto, Laura ^a,b   Dowty, James G ^b   Jenkins, Mark A ^b   Southey, Melissa C ^b   Hopper, John L ^a   Giles, Graham G ^a,b  

^a CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FAMILIAL CANCER; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROZYGOTE; HOXB13 GENE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ONSET AGE; PENETRANCE; POPULATION GENETICS; PROSTATE CANCER; RELATIVE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84874042482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054727     Document Type: Article

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