Article
Variants of interleukin-16 associated with gastric cancer risk.
Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP - 1 Jan 2013
Zhang Tao, Wang Hui
Abstract excerpt
AIM: We conducted a case-control matched study to investigate the role of IL-16 gene polymorphisms, rs4072111, rs1131445, rs4778889 and rs11556218, in the risk of gastric cancer in a Chinese population, also performing subgroup analysis by subsites. METHODS: To test the hypothesis of involvement, we analyzed the four SNPs of IL16 in 347 cancer patients and 368 controls. Demographic data and other information were...
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