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MDM2 SNP309 polymorphism as risk factor for susceptibility and poor prognosis in renal cell carcinoma.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 15 Jul 2007
Hirata Hiroshi, Hinoda Yuji, Kikuno Nobuyuki, Kawamoto Ken, Suehiro Yutaka, Tanaka Yuichiro, Dahiya Rajvir
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: MDM2 is a major negative regulator of p53, and a single nucleotide polymorphism in the MDM2 promoter region SNP309 (rs2279744) has been shown to increase the affinity of the transcriptional activator Sp1, resulting in elevated MDM2 transcription and expression in some cancers. There is currently no information about the role of MDM2 polymorphism in renal cell carcinoma (RCC). We investigated...
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