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Genes related to diabetes may be associated with pancreatic cancer in a population-based case-control study in Minnesota.
Pancreas - 1 Jan 2012
Prizment Anna E, Gross Myron, Rasmussen-Torvik Laura, Peacock James M, Anderson Kristin E
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OBJECTIVES: Type 2 diabetes is associated with increased pancreatic cancer risk; however, the nature of this relationship is not clear. We examined the link between 10 diabetes-related single-nucleotide polymorphisms and pancreatic cancer in a case-control study conducted in 1994 to 1998. METHODS: Cases (n = 162) were ascertained from hospitals in the Twin Cities and Mayo Clinic, Minn. Controls (n = 540) from the...
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