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Correlation between Duffy blood group phenotype and breast cancer incidence.
BMC cancer - 28 Aug 2012
Liu Xiao-Feng, Li Lian-Fang, Ou Zhou-Luo, Shen Rong, Shao Zhi-Min
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Different ethnicities have different distribution of Duffy blood group (DBG) phenotypes and different breast cancer morbidity. A study in our lab demonstrated that Duffy antigen/receptor for chemokines (DARC, also known as DBGP, the Duffy protein phenotype), led to the inhibition of tumorigenesis. Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that DBGP is correlated with breast cancer occurrence. METHODS: DBGP...
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