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Association of androgen receptor exon 1 CAG repeat length with risk of hepatocellular carcinoma: a case-control study.
Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine - 1 Dec 2014
Li Kainan, Zhong Chen, Wang Jun, Wang Baocheng, He Jun, Bi Jingwang
Abstract excerpt
Epidemiologic and biological data suggest a role for androgens and perhaps their receptor in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) development. However, few studies evaluated an association between HCC risk and androgen receptor (AR) cytosine, adenine, guanine (CAG) repeat length. To examine whether the relationship between the AR CAG repeats and HCC risk was also evident in Chinese, we conducted this large...
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