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Increased risk for oral cancer is associated with coagulation factor XIII but not with factor XII.
Oncology reports - 1 Dec 2007
Vairaktaris Eleftherios, Vassiliou Stavros, Yapijakis Christos, Spyridonidou Sofia, Vylliotis Antonis, Derka Spyridoula, Nkenke Emeka, Fourtounis Gregory, Neukam Friedrich W, Patsouris Efstratios
Abstract excerpt
In light of recently found contribution of factors associated with thrombosis and inflammation to carcinogenesis, we investigated the possible association of coagulation factors XII and XIII with increased risk for oral cancer. In DNA samples of patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma and healthy controls of comparable ethnicity, age and sex, we studied the C46T polymorphism in FXII gene which affects gene...
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