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Endometrial cancer and genetic variation in PTEN, PIK3CA, AKT1, MLH1, and MSH2 within a population-based case-control study.
Gynecologic oncology - 1 Feb 2011
Lacey James V, Yang Hannah, Gaudet Mia M, Dunning Alison, Lissowska Jolanta, Sherman Mark E, Peplonska Beata, Brinton Louise A, Healey Catherine S, Ahmed Shahana, Pharoah Paul, Easton Douglas, Chanock Stephen, Garcia-Closas Montserrat
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OBJECTIVE: We assessed whether common genetic variation in PTEN, PIK3CA, AKT1, MLH1, and MSH2-genes that reportedly are frequently altered in endometrial cancer-was associated with risk of endometrial cancer. METHODS: Using data from a population-based case-control study in Poland (PECS) of 417 c...
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