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An investigation of the tylosis with oesophageal cancer (TOC) locus in Iranian patients with oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma.
International journal of oncology - 1 Aug 2004
Shahabi M, Noori Daloii M R, Langan J E, Rowbottom L, Jahanzad E, Khoshbin E, Taghikhani M, Field J K, Risk J M
Abstract excerpt
Oesophageal cancer is one of the ten leading causes of cancer mortality worldwide. Earlier loss of heterozygosity (or allelic imbalance) studies have implicated regions on chromosomes 3p, 5q, 9p, 13q, 17p, 17q, and 18q in the development of sporadic oesophageal cancer and recent data have linked the familial tylosis with oesophageal cancer (TOC) gene-containing region on chromosome 17q25 with this cancer. We have...
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