Telomere Length and Genetic Anticipation in Lynch Syndrome

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Seguí, Nuria ^a   Pineda, Marta ^a   Guinó, Elisabet ^a   Borràs, Ester ^a   Navarro, Matilde ^a   Bellido, Fernando ^a   Moreno, Victor ^a,b   Lázaro, Conxi ^a   Blanco, Ignacio ^a   Capellá, Gabriel ^a   Valle, Laura ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN MLH1; PROTEIN MSH2; PROTEIN MSH6;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS COLORECTAL CANCER; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MLH1 GENE; MSH2 GENE; MSH6 GENE; ONSET AGE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TELOMERE; TELOMERE LENGTH; TELOMERE SHORTENING; CHILD; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICIPATION, GENETIC; CHILD; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS, HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 84876551235     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061286     Document Type: Article

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