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Association of IL10 and other immune response- and obesity-related genes with prostate cancer in CLUE II.
The Prostate - 1 Jun 2009
Wang Ming-Hsi, Helzlsouer Kathy J, Smith Michael W, Hoffman-Bolton Judith A, Clipp Sandra L, Grinberg Viktoriya, De Marzo Angelo M, Isaacs William B, Drake Charles G, Shugart Yin Yao, Platz Elizabeth A
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BACKGROUND: Chronic intra-prostatic inflammation and obesity are thought to influence prostate carcinogenesis. Thus, variants in genes in these pathways could be associated with prostate cancer risk. METHODS: We genotyped 17 common single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in RNASEL, TLR4, IL1B, IL6, IL8, IL10, TNF, CRP, ADIPOQ, LEP, PPARG, and TCF7L2 in 258 white prostate cancer cases and 258 matched controls...
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