Article
Genotype and phenotype of glutathione S-transferase mu in testicular cancer patients.
Pharmacogenetics - 1 Feb 1997
Vistisen K, Priemé H, Okkels H, Vallentin S, Loft S, Olsen J H, Poulsen H E
Abstract excerpt
The incidence rate of testicular cancer has been steadily increasing during the last 50 years, and only cryptorchidism, i.e. undescended testes, has been identified as an important risk factor. An interplay between changing environmental factors and genetic susceptibility e.g. in foreign compound...
Topics
- Adult
- Case-Control Studies
- Coffee
- Cryptorchidism
- Denmark
- Exercise
- Genotype
- Glutathione Transferase
- Humans
- Incidence
- Isoenzymes
- Male
- Phenotype
- Seminoma
- Smoking
- Testicular Neoplasms