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Estrogen receptor-alpha polymorphism in a Taiwanese clinical breast cancer population: a case-control study.
Breast cancer research : BCR - 1 Jan 2004
Hsiao Wei-Chiang, Young Kung-Chia, Lin Shoei-Loong, Lin Pin-Wen
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INTRODUCTION: Receptor-mediated estrogen activation participates in the development and progression of breast cancer. Estrogen receptor (ER)-alpha polymorphism has been found to be associated with breast cancer and clinical features of the disease in Caucasians. Epidemiologic studies have revealed that age-incidence patterns of breast cancer in Asians differ from those in Caucasians. Genomic data for ER-alpha in...
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