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A case-control study of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and polymorphisms in the TGF-beta and receptor genes.
Pediatric blood & cancer - 1 Jul 2009
Dai Liping, Gast Andreas, Horska Alexandra, Schrappe Martin, Bartram Claus R, Hemminki Kari, Kumar Rajiv, Bermejo Justo Lorenzo
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BACKGROUND: Inherited genetic variants in critical genes can putatively modulate susceptibility to childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). METHODS: We used allelic discrimination method to genotype 19 polymorphisms in the transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1), transforming growth fac...
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