The heritability of prostate cancer-letter

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 878-

  Hopper, John L ^a,b   Mack, Thomas M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; GENETICS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84937511580     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-14-0691     Document Type: Letter

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