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Association between PTEN IVS4 polymorphism and cancer risk: a meta-analysis.
Cancer biomarkers : section A of Disease markers - 1 Jan 2013
Gao Xueren, Duan Haixia, Zhu Zhansheng
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: PTEN, a candidate tumor suppressor gene, has been identified within chromosome 10q23 and plays an important role in tumorigenesis. The association between the IVS4 insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism of PTEN and cancer risk in several populations has been studied, but results are conflicting. The aim of the present study was to investigate association of PTEN IVS4 polymorphism with cancer risk by...
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