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Effects of caspase-9 and survivin gene polymorphisms in pancreatic cancer risk and tumor characteristics.
Pancreas - 1 Oct 2010
Theodoropoulos George E, Michalopoulos Nikolaos V, Panoussopoulos Sotirios-George, Taka Styliani, Gazouli Maria
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OBJECTIVES: This case-control study was performed to evaluate the association between a specific caspase-9 polymorphism as well as the genetic polymorphism -31G/C located in the cycle-dependent elements/cell cycle homology regions repressor element of the human survivin promoter and the risk of pancreatic cancer. METHODS: Eighty patients with pancreatic cancer and 160 healthy controls were investigated for...
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