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The functional BRCA1 rs799917 genetic polymorphism is associated with gastric cancer risk in a Chinese Han population.
Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine - 1 Jan 2015
Wang Kun, Xu Longfang, Pan Lin, Xu Kesen, Li Guixia
Abstract excerpt
BRCA1 is a crucial tumor suppressor which plays an essential role in maintaining genomic stability and integrity. Accumulated evidences demonstrated that there is frequent chromosome loss of BRCA1 or significant BRCA1 down-regulation via hypermethylation of its promoter in human gastric cancer specimens, highlighting the tumor-suppressing function of BRCA1 in gastric carcinogenesis. There is an rs799917 T>C...
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