Evaluation of Common Inherited Variants in Mitochondrial-Related and MicroRNA-Related Genes as Novel Risk Factors for Ovarian Cancer

Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among women in the United States, and the etiology is incompletely understood. Common, low penetrant genetic variants such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) likely contribute to a significant proportion of EOC. We...

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Main Author: Permuth Wey, Jennifer
Format: Others
Published: Scholar Commons 2010
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Online Access:http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3488
http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4683&context=etd