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Common genetic variants and risk for non-Hodgkin lymphoma and adult T-cell lymphoma/leukemia in Jamaica.
International journal of cancer - 15 Sept 2009
Wang Sophia S, Carreon J Daniel, Hanchard Barrie, Chanock Stephen, Hisada Michie
Abstract excerpt
We evaluated whether risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), particularly adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) related to human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV) infection was associated with 63 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from 38 candidate genes. The 395 NHL cases registered in Jamaica were matched by age, sex, calendar-year and HTLV serostatus to 309 controls from the same population. Interleukin 13 (IL13)...
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