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Haplotype and genotypes of the VDR gene and cutaneous melanoma risk in non-Hispanic whites in Texas: a case-control study.
International journal of cancer - 1 May 2008
Li Chunying, Liu Zhensheng, Wang Li E, Gershenwald Jeffrey E, Lee Jeffrey E, Prieto Victor G, Duvic Madeleine, Grimm Elizabeth A, Wei Qingyi
Abstract excerpt
In a hospital-based case-control study of 805 non-Hispanic whites with cutaneous melanoma and 841 cancer-free age-, sex- and ethnicity-matched control subjects, 3 VDR polymorphisms (i.e., TaqI, BsmI and FokI) were genotyped using blood samples collected between 1994 and 2006. We tested the hypothesis that the haplotypes and combined genotypes of these polymorphisms were associated with melanoma risk by...
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