Article
Endothelin-1 single nucleotide polymorphisms and risk of pulmonary metastatic osteosarcoma.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Zang Xiaofang, Zhou Yong, Huang Zufa, Zhang Chaoyue
Abstract excerpt
Pulmonary metastases are the major cause of death of osteosarcoma (OS) patients. Endothelin-1 (ET-1) reportedly plays an important role in OS metastasis. In the present study, we for the first time explored the association of ET-1 SNPs with the risk of pulmonary metastatic OS. We genotyped three SNPs (rs1800541, rs2070699 and rs5370) in the ET-1 gene in a case-control study, using 260 pairs of age-, sex-,...
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