Article
Molecular epidemiology in environmental health: the potential of tumor suppressor gene p53 as a biomarker.
Environmental health perspectives - 1 Feb 1997
Semenza J C, Weasel L H
Abstract excerpt
One of the challenges in environmental health is to attribute a certain health effect to a specific environmental exposure and to establish a cause-effect relationship. Molecular epidemiology offers a new approach to addressing these challenges. Mutations in the tumor suppressor gene p53 can shed...
Topics
- Aflatoxin B1
- Environmental Exposure
- Environmental Health
- Environmental Monitoring
- Genes, p53
- Genetic Markers
- Humans
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Mutation
- Neoplasms
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Smoking
- Ultraviolet Rays
- Vinyl Chloride