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Single-nucleotide polymorphisms at the TP53-binding or responsive promoter regions of BAX and BCL2 genes and risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.
Carcinogenesis - 1 Sept 2007
Chen Kexin, Hu Zhibin, Wang Li-E, Sturgis Erich M, El-Naggar Adel K, Zhang Wei, Wei Qingyi
Abstract excerpt
Tumor protein 53 (TP53), a transcriptional factor, induces expression of the B-cell lymphoma 2-associated X protein (BAX) gene by directly binding to the TP53-binding element in the BAX promoter but inhibits B-cell lymphoma 2 (BCL2) promoter-driven transcription through a responsive region in the BCL2 promoter. Therefore, we hypothesized that single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of BAX and BCL2 promoters and...
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