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[Correlation between family and age of manifestation of lung and colon cancer].
Genetika - 1 Dec 2003
Atramentova L A, Beliaeva L V
Abstract excerpt
The probability to develop lung cancer before 80 years of age is 1.67 and 0.18% for the male and female populations of Kharkov, respectively; the probability to develop large-intestine cancer is 0.92 and 0.49%, respectively. The correlation coefficient (r) of the age of manifestation (AM) of cancer in parent-offspring pairs is 0.47. These correlation coefficients for the father-son, mother-daughter, mother-son,...
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