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Germ line polymorphism in metastatic progression.
Cancer research - 1 Feb 2006
Hunter Kent W, Crawford Nigel P
Abstract excerpt
Somatic genetic analysis of tumors and metastases has yielded a plethora of information regarding genes associated with cancer progression. However, somatic alterations in tumor cells are only one source of variability. Genetic polymorphism may also play a significant role in person-to-person variability in metastasis frequency, raising the intriguing possibility that some individuals could be predisposed to...
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