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Haplotypes of estrogen receptor-beta and risk of non-small cell lung cancer in women.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Mar 2011
Paulus Jessica K, Zhou Wei, Kraft Peter, Johnson Bruce E, Lin Xihong, Christiani David C
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Epidemiologic and biologic evidence suggests that lung cancer has different clinical and biological characteristics in women, and that estrogen may contribute to the pathogenesis of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We investigated whether germline variation in the estrogen receptor-beta gene (ESR2) is associated with lung cancer risk among 1021 female cases and 826 female controls enrolled in the Lung Cancer...
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