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Analysis of angiogenesis genes from paraffin-embedded breast tumor and lymph nodes.
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 Apr 2006
Schneider Bryan P, Skaar Todd C, Sledge George W, Badve Sunil, Li Lang, Flockhart David A
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BACKGROUND: Angiogenesis is important in tumor growth and metastasis. Germ-line polymorphisms critical to the angiogenesis pathway have been shown to confer prognostic information in multiple tumor types. These genes include vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS). EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: We extracted DNA from 53 specimens obtained from 21 patients including a primary...
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