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The adiponectin gene single-nucleotide polymorphism rs1501299 is associated with hepatocellular carcinoma risk.
Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico - 1 Feb 2014
Cai X, Gan Y, Fan Y, Hu J, Jin Y, Chen F, Chen T, Sun Y, Wang J, Qin W, Tu Hong
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PURPOSE: Increasing lines of evidence have suggested that adiponectin, an adipocyte-derived hormone, plays an important role in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, the relationship between genetic variants of the adiponectin gene (ADIPOQ) and HCC has not been previously explored. Therefore, we performed a case-control study to examine the association of haplotype-tagging single-nucleotide...
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