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Variants in inflammation genes and the risk of biliary tract cancers and stones: a population-based study in China.
Cancer research - 1 Aug 2008
Hsing Ann W, Sakoda Lori C, Rashid Asif, Andreotti Gabriella, Chen Jinbo, Wang Bin-Shen, Shen Ming-Chang, Chen Bingshu E, Rosenberg Philip S, Zhang Mingdong, Niwa Shelley, Chu Lisa, Welch Robert, Yeager Meredith, Fraumeni Joseph F, Gao Yu-Tang, Chanock Stephen J
Abstract excerpt
To evaluate the role of chronic inflammation in the development of gallstones and biliary tract cancer, we examined the risk associated with 62 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), in 22 inflammation-related genes, in a population-based case-control study conducted in Shanghai, China, where the incidence of biliary tract cancer has been increasing in recent decades. The study included 411 cases with biliary...
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