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Interaction of soy and 17beta-HSD1 gene polymorphisms in the risk of endometrial cancer.
Pharmacogenetics and genomics - 1 Feb 2007
Dai Qi, Xu Wang-Hong, Long Ji-Rong, Courtney Regina, Xiang Yong-Bing, Cai Qiuyin, Cheng Jiarong, Zheng Wei, Shu Xiao-Ou
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: In-vitro studies have found that soy isoflavones can inhibit the activity of 17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type I, a key enzyme in catalyzing estrone (E1), to the biologically more active estradiol (E2). OBJECTIVE: We hypothesized that soy food consumption may interact with polymorphisms in the 17beta-HSD1 gene in the development of endometrial cancer and evaluated this hypothesis in the...
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