Urinary bladder cancer susceptibility markers. What do we know about functional mechanisms?

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 12346-12366

  Dudek, Aleksandra M ^a,b   Grotenhuis, Anne J ^a   Vermeulen, Sita H ^a   Kiemeney, Lambertus A L M ^a   Verhaegh, Gerald W ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bladder cancer; GWAS; Risk variants

Indexed keywords

TUMOR MARKER;

BLADDER TUMOR; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; URINE;

GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK FACTORS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84889600504     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms140612346     Document Type: Article

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