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Common Variants of the Prostaglandin-Endoperoxide Synthase 2 Gene and Hepatocellular Carcinoma Susceptibility.
Medicine - 1 Sept 2015
Li Hong-Guang, Liu Fang-Feng, Zhu Hua-Qiang, Zhou Xu, Lu Jun, Chang Hong, Hu Jin-Hua
Abstract excerpt
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a heterogeneous disease with substantial genetic constitution. Previous work has evaluated the effect of prostaglandin-endoperoxide synthase 2 (PTGS2) variants (-765G/C, -1195A/G, and +8473T/C) on the development of HCC, but the conclusions are inconsistent. We conducted a meta-analysis in this work. Data from 7 case-control studies were combined to assess the association between...
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