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Association of a common variant of the CASP8 gene with reduced risk of breast cancer.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute - 15 Dec 2004
MacPherson Gordon, Healey Catherine S, Teare M Dawn, Balasubramanian Sabapathy P, Reed Malcolm W R, Pharoah Paul D P, Ponder Bruce A J, Meuth Mark, Bhattacharyya Nitai P, Cox Angela
Abstract excerpt
Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is perturbed in many cancers. We tested the hypothesis that coding polymorphisms of the death receptor 4 (DR4), caspase-8 (CASP8), and caspase-10 (CASP10) genes might act as low-penetrance breast cancer genes. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of these ge...
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