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(AC) dinucleotide repeat polymorphism in intron 1 of human EGFR shows ethnic specificities and high evidence for association with breast cancer.
The International journal of biological markers - 1 Jan 2000
Kharrat N, Al'Fadhli S, Rebai M, Aifa M S, Kallel I, Khabir A, Sellami-Boudawara T, Frikha M, Rebai A
Abstract excerpt
A polymorphic AC repeat in intron 1 of the EGFR gene was genotyped on 352 healthy individuals and 118 women with breast cancer sampled from the Kuwaiti and Tunisian populations. We compared allele frequencies in these populations with published data on various ethnic groups. We found very close similarity between Tunisian and Kuwaiti populations for both allelic and genotypic frequencies and in both control and...
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