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Programmed death-1 gene polymorphism (PD-1.5 C/T) is associated with colon cancer.
Gene - 25 Oct 2012
Mojtahedi Zahra, Mohmedi Mona, Rahimifar Shahrzad, Erfani Nasrollah, Hosseini Seyed Vahid, Ghaderi Abbas
Abstract excerpt
Programmed death-1 (PD-1), expressed by activated T cells, is a negative regulator of T lymphocytes. The associations of the immune response-related genes with cancer have been demonstrated. In this study, the PD-1.5 C/T (+7785) polymorphism was investigated in 200 colorectal cancer patients and 200 healthy individuals as controls by nested polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism...
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