Interleukin-8-251A/T polymorphism and Helicobacter pylori infection influence risk for the development of gastric cardiac adenocarcinoma in a high-incidence area of China.

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Polymorphisms in cytokine genes may contribute to increased susceptibility to different cancers. The aim of this paper is to investigate the association of IL-8-251A/T polymorphism and Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection with the risk of developing gastric cardiac adenocarcinoma (GCA) in the south of Taihang Mountain, a high-incidence area of esophageal cancer in China. The IL-8-251 A/T polymorphism was...

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