Association between microRNA polymorphisms and cancer risk based on the findings of 66 case-control studies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Ma, Xiao Pin ^a   Zhang, Ting ^a,c   Peng, Bo ^a   Yu, Long ^a,b   Jiang, De Ke ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MEDICAL SCHOOL OF SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MICRORNAS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84894260446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079584     Document Type: Article

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