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The functional IGFBP7 promoter -418G>A polymorphism and risk of head and neck cancer.
Mutation research - 30 Sept 2010
Huang Yu-Jing, Niu Jiangong, Liu Zhensheng, Wang Li-E, Sturgis Erich M, Wei Qingyi
Abstract excerpt
Insulin-like growth factor binding protein 7 (IGFBP7) functions mostly independent of the IGF signaling pathway and acts as a tumor suppressor in multiple cancers, but roles of IGFBP7 genetic variants in cancer remains unknown. In a hospital-based study of 1065 patients with squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck (SCCHN) and 1112 cancer-free controls of non-Hispanic whites, we investigated associations between...
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