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A rare polymorphism of the COX7B2 gene in a Cantonese family with nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
Science in China. Series C, Life sciences - 1 Oct 2004
Liang Hui, Chen Hankui, Shen Yayun, Feng Qisheng, Jin Wei, Huang Wei, Zeng Yixin
Abstract excerpt
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is the most common head and neck cancer in southern China, and the genetic susceptibility is believed to play an important role in the aetiology of this malignancy. In our previous studies, one candidate susceptibility locus has been mapped to chromosome 4p11-p14 in a subset of NPC families. In the present study, we screened the cytochrome oxidase VIIb2 (COX7B2) gene which resides...
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