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Functional polymorphisms in the promoters of MMP-1, MMP-2, MMP-3, MMP-9, MMP-12 and MMP-13 are not associated with hepatocellular carcinoma risk
1 Mar 2007
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The matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) play an important role in several steps of cancer development by regulating cancer-cell growth, differentiation, apoptosis, invasion, metastasis, angiogenesis and immune surveillance.1 Several polymorphisms in the promoters of a number of MMP genes, which are thought to affect the respective MMP production in an allele-specific manner, have been well characterised.2–4 There is...
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