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Dermatoglyphs and gastric cancer.
Collegium antropologicum - 1 Jun 2003
Zivanović-Posilović Gordana, Milicić Jasna, Bozicević Dubravko
Abstract excerpt
Gastric cancer is very common malignant disease, etiology of which is still unknown. Some studies consider that it is caused by a joint activity of both genetic and environmental factors. Digito-palmar dermatoglyphs were already used to determine hereditary base of some malignant diseases (breast, lung and colorectal cancer) and it was the reason for investigations of the correlation of their quantity features at...
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