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Polymorphisms in cytokine genes and serum cytokine levels among New Mexican women with and without breast cancer.
Cytokine - 1 Jul 2010
Erdei Esther, Kang Huining, Meisner Angela, White Kirsten, Pickett Gavin, Baca Cynthia, Royce Melanie, Berwick Marianne
Abstract excerpt
Among New Mexican Hispanic women, breast cancer is detected at a more advanced stage than compared to Non-Hispanic White women. One central factor that has been little studied is the role of critical cytokines. We genotyped incident breast cancer cases and their age-, gender- and smoking-matched controls (N=40 matched pairs) for 25 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in cytokine genes. We measured...
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