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Tallness is associated with risk of testicular cancer: evidence for the nutrition hypothesis

The pathogenesis of testicular germ cell tumours (GCTs) is potentially influenced by high-energy nutrition during infancy. As adult height is a proxy for childhood nutrition, we investigated the role of nutrition in GCT pathogenesis by comparing stature of patients with healthy men. In a matched cas...

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Autores principales: Dieckmann, K-P, Hartmann, J T, Classen, J, Lüdde, R, Diederichs, M, Pichlmeier, U
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2579680/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18827809
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6604695