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Cytokine gene polymorphisms as potential risk and protective factors in renal cell carcinoma.
Cytokine - 7 Apr 2005
Baştürk Bilkay, Yavaşçaoğlu Ismet, Vuruşkan Hakan, Göral Güher, Oktay Bülent, Oral H Barbaros
Abstract excerpt
The major aim of this study was to investigate the association of the cytokine gene polymorphisms with the development of renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The study included 29 patients with RCC and 50 healthy controls. All genotyping (TNF-alpha, TGF-beta, IL-10, IL-6, IFN-gamma) experiments were performed using sequence-specific primers PCR (PCR-SSP). It was found that TNF-alpha -308 G/G and TGF-beta codon 10-25...
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