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Racial/ethnic disparities in inflammatory gene single-nucleotide polymorphisms as predictors of a high risk for symptom burden in patients with multiple myeloma 1 year after diagnosis.
Cancer - 1 Apr 2015
Shi Qiuling, Wang Xin Shelley, Li Guojun, Shah Nina D, Orlowski Robert Z, Williams Loretta A, Mendoza Tito R, Cleeland Charles S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: This study was conducted to determine whether any regulatory single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in an inflammatory gene was associated with a high symptom burden in patients 1 year after the diagnosis of multiple myeloma (MM). METHODS: MM patients rated symptoms with the MD Anderson Symptom Inventory multiple myeloma module (MDASI-MM) and provided buccal-swab DNA samples. SNPs for 4 cytokine genes...
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