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Interleukin-6 -174G/C polymorphism in breast cancer and uterine leiomyoma patients: a population-based case control study.
Experimental oncology - 1 Dec 2007
Litovkin K V, Domenyuk V P, Bubnov V V, Zaporozhan V N
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: A common G/C polymorphism at position -174 of the interleukin-6 (IL-6) gene promoter is thought to affect the expression level of this gene, thus predisposing to a variety of diseases, including tumorigenesis. AIM: To investigate the association of the -174 G/C IL-6 polymorphism with breast cancer and uterine leiomyoma in Ukrainian population. METHODS: We genotyped the -174 G/C IL-6 polymorphism in a...
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