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Interleukin 17A rs4711998 A>G polymorphism was associated with a decreased risk of esophageal cancer in a Chinese population.
Diseases of the esophagus : official journal of the International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus - 1 Jan 2014
Yin J, Wang L, Shi Y, Shao A, Tang W, Wang X, Ding G, Liu C, Chen S, Gu H
Abstract excerpt
Esophageal cancer is the eighth most common cancer and sixth leading cause of cancer-associated death worldwide. Besides environmental risk factors, genetic factors might play an important role in the esophageal cancer carcinogenesis. We conducted a hospital-based case-control study to evaluate the genetic effects of functional single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the interleukin 17A (IL17A) gene on the...
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