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A case-control study indicates that the TRIB1 gene is associated with pancreatic cancer.
Genetics and molecular research : GMR - 7 Aug 2014
Lu X X, Hu J J, Fang Y, Wang Z T, Xie J J, Zhan Q, Deng X X, Chen H, Jin J B, Peng C H, Liu J, Li H W, Shen B Y
Abstract excerpt
Pancreatic cancer is a malignant neoplasm originating from transformed cells arising in tissues that form the pancreas. To investigate whether the tribbles homolog 1 (Drosophila) gene (TRIB1) is associated with pancreatic cancer in the Chinese Han population, we conducted this case-control study and genotyped 3 single nucleotide polymorphisms (rs2980879, rs2980874, and rs2235108) of the TRIB1 gene in 182 patients...
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