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TERT polymorphisms rs2853669 and rs7726159 influence on prostate cancer risk in Russian population.
Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine - 1 Feb 2015
Shadrina Alexandra S, Boyarskikh Uljana A, Oskina Natalja A, Sinkina Tatiana V, Lazarev Alexandr F, Petrova Valentina D, Filipenko Maxim L
Abstract excerpt
Telomere length and telomerase activity have been hypothesized to play a role in cancer development. The aim of our study was to investigate the association of allelic variants of three functional polymorphisms rs2853669, rs2736100, and rs7726159 in the telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) gene with the risk of the breast cancer and prostate cancer in Russian population. Six hundred sixty women with breast...
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