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Association of breast cancer outcome with status of p53 and MDM2 SNP309.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute - 5 Jul 2006
Boersma Brenda J, Howe Tiffany M, Goodman Julie E, Yfantis Harry G, Lee Dong H, Chanock Stephen J, Ambs Stefan
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: A common single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the promoter region of the MDM2 gene, known as T-309G and referred to as SNP309 for this study, leads to increased expression of Mdm2 protein and attenuated function of the p53 tumor suppressor protein. We investigated whether genetic variants in MDM2 were associated with breast cancer incidence and survival and whether the variant status could interact...
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