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Variation in innate immunity genes and risk of multiple myeloma.
Hematological oncology - 1 Mar 2011
Purdue Mark P, Lan Qing, Menashe Idan, Zheng Tongzhang, Zhang Yawei, Yeager Meredith, Hosgood H Dean, Zahm Shelia H, Chanock Stephen J, Rothman Nathaniel, Baris Dalsu
Abstract excerpt
Multiple myeloma (MM) is a B-cell lymphoid malignancy suspected to be associated with immunologic factors. Given recent findings associating single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in innate immunity genes with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, we conducted an investigation of innate immune gene variants using specimens from a population-based case-control study of MM conducted in Connecticut women. Tag SNPs (N = 1461)...
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