Article
Gastric cancer risk predisposition and prognostic significance of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) gene polymorphisms--a case-control study in an Omani population.
Molecular carcinogenesis - 1 Dec 2009
Al-Moundhri Mansour S, Al-Nabhani Maryam, Burney Ikram A, Al-Farsi Abdul-Aziz, Al-Bahrani Bassim
Abstract excerpt
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) plays a central role in angiogenesis, tumor growth, and metastasis. We investigated the associations between VEGF gene polymorphisms and gastric cancer (GC) risk predisposition and prognostic characteristics in an Omani population, an ethnic group which has not been studied previously. We analyzed three VEGF polymorphisms (+405 G/C, -460 T/C, and +936 C/T) by the...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Case-Control Studies
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Oman
