Atrial fibrillation? Watch the fiddleheads!

Canadian Medical Association - CMAJ, 1998 - Can Med Assoc
A genetic variation raises the risk of cervical cancer sevenfold in women, British researchers
have found (Nature 1998; 393: 229-34). Women with 2 copies of a variant of the gene for the …

Risk of dying on the waiting list

CJ Brown - CMAJ, 1998 - Can Med Assoc
A genetic variation raises the risk of cervical cancer sevenfold in women, British researchers
have found (Nature 1998; 393: 229-34). Women with 2 copies of a variant of the gene for the …

Genetic risk factor for cervical cancer

Canadian Medical Association - CMAJ, 1998 - Can Med Assoc
A genetic variation raises the risk of cervical cancer sevenfold in women, British researchers
have found (Nature 1998; 393: 229-34). Women with 2 copies of a variant of the gene for the …

Gene variation linked to cervical cancer

H Bower - 1998 - bmj.com
An international collaboration group of British, Italian, and Canadian scientists has
discovered that women who carry a particular variation of the tumour suppressor gene p53 …

[HTML][HTML] p53 polymorphism and risk of cervical cancer

AM Josefsson, PKE Magnusson, N Ylitalo… - Nature, 1998 - nature.com
Storey and co-workers claim that there is an association between a common variant of the
p53 tumour-suppressor gene and the development of invasive cervical carcinoma. Here we …

p53 and genetic susceptibility to cervical cancer

Y Sonoda, PE Saigo, J Boyd - Journal of the National Cancer …, 1999 - academic.oup.com
In a recent report, Storey et al.(1) provide compelling experimental evidence that two
common polymorphic variants of the p53 tumor suppressor protein differ in their …

p53 polymorphism and risk of cervical cancer

A Storey, M Thomas, A Kalita, C Harwood, D Gardiol… - Nature, 1998 - nature.com
Storey et al. reply—These reports assess the frequency of the p53Arg allele in different
populations and conclude that homozygous p53Arg is not a risk factor for cancer associated …

Heart disease starts in the womb

Canadian Medical Association - CMAJ, 1997 - Can Med Assoc
Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) that cause genital warts are known to cause cervical
cancer. Now researchers in Finland have established that some HPV infections are risk …

Cervical cancer risk: is there a genetic component?

PKE Magnusson, UB Gyllensten - Molecular medicine today, 2000 - cell.com
Human papilloma virus (HPV) is a major risk factor for the development of cervical cancer.
As only some infected women develop cancer, other factors must be important for disease …

The Genetic Basis of Cancer

R Camidge - Bmj, 2001 - bmj.com
Women and smoking was the subject of a swirl of media attention last week. Striking tabloid
images showed the impact of smoking on women's appearance. Alongside “shocking …