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Genetic factors related to gastric cancer susceptibility identified using a genome-wide association study.
Cancer science - 1 Jan 2013
Saeki Norihisa, Ono Hiroe, Sakamoto Hiromi, Yoshida Teruhiko
Abstract excerpt
Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the major malignant diseases worldwide, especially in Asia, where Japan and Korea have the highest incidence in the world. Gastric cancer is classified into intestinal and diffuse types. While the former is almost absolutely caused by Helicobacter pylori infection as the initial insult, the latter seems to include cases in which the role of infection is limited, if any, and a...
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