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Zinc transporter genes and urological cancers: integrated analysis suggests a role for ZIP11 in bladder cancer.
Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine - 1 Sept 2015
Wu Lang, Chaffee Kari G, Parker Alexander S, Sicotte Hugues, Petersen Gloria M
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Although zinc transporters were shown to play roles in the development of prostate, bladder, and renal cancer, no study has evaluated the genetic variants in zinc transporter genes with risk of urological cancers. A candidate gene association study using genome-wide association study (GWAS) datasets was conducted for variants in 24 zinc transporter genes. Genotypes were analyzed using logistic regression models...
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