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Associations of matrix metalloproteinase-9 protein polymorphisms with lymph node metastasis but not invasion of gastric cancer.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 May 2008
Tang Yang, Zhu Jinwei, Chen Ling, Chen Linyin, Zhang Sheng, Lin Jianyin
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PURPOSE: Like most cancers, gastric cancer has a complex multistep etiology that involves both environmental and genetic factors. Matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) is frequently overexpressed in gastric cancer. We investigated the effect of the genetic differences in MMP-9 coding region on the o...
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