Blood levels of folate at birth and risk of childhood leukemia

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1088-1094

  Chokkalingam, Anand P ^a   Chun, Danielle S ^a   Noonan, Emily J ^a   Pfeiffer, Christine M ^d   Zhang, Mindy ^d   Month, Stacy R ^b   Taggart, Denah R ^b   Wiemels, Joseph L ^c   Metayer, Catherine ^a   Buffler, Patricia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRIED BLOOD SPOT TESTING; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; GRAIN; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREPREGNANCY CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT;

ADOLESCENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MALE; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; PROGNOSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84879023196     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-12-1438     Document Type: Article

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