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Meta-analysis: glutathione-S-transferase allelic variants are associated with alcoholic liver disease.
Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics - 1 Nov 2011
Marcos M, Pastor I, Chamorro A-J, Ciria-Abad S, González-Sarmiento R, Laso F-J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Only a minority of alcoholics develop alcoholic liver disease (ALD) and allelic variants within genes encoding glutathione-S-transferases (GST) have been associated with ALD vulnerability with controversial results. AIM: To assess the effects of GST polymorphisms on ALD by means of a genetic association study and meta-analysis. METHODS: We retrieved published studies on the relationship between...
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