Telomere length in peripheral blood leukocytes is associated with risk of colorectal cancer in Chinese population

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Qin, Qin ^a   Sun, Jingwen ^b   Yin, Jieyun ^a   Liu, Li ^a   Chen, Jigui ^c   Zhang, Yuxing ^c   Li, TingTing ^a   Shi, Yun ^a   Wei, Sheng ^a   Nie, Shaofa ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Chengdu Center for Disease Control Prevention   (China)

^c The Eighth Hospital of Wuhan   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHINA; CHINESE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLON; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM; RISK FACTORS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 84894636569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088135     Document Type: Article

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