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Polymorphisms in the MUC16 gene: potential implication in epithelial ovarian cancer.
Pathology oncology research : POR - 1 Jun 2011
Bouanene Houda, Hadj Kacem Hassen, Ben Fatma Leila, Ben Limem Halima, Ben Ahmed Slim, Yakoub Salwa, Miled Abdelhédi
Abstract excerpt
MUC16 plays an important role in epithelial ovarian cancer. In this paper, we studied the association between two tags SNPs of MUC16 and the risk of epithelial ovarian cancer. We aimed also to test the association between these tags SNPs and elevated level of the protein CA125. We analyzed a collection of 117 cases. Forty-one samples of patients with epithelial ovarian cancer and 76 samples from Tunisian...
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