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Strong association between long and heterogeneous telomere length in blood lymphocytes and bladder cancer risk in Egyptian.
Carcinogenesis - 1 Nov 2015
Wang Hongkun, Wang Ying, Kota Krishna K, Kallakury Bhaskar, Mikhail Nabiel N, Sayed Douaa, Mokhtar Ahmed, Maximous Doaa, Yassin Etemad H, Gouda Iman, Sobitan Adebiyi, Sun Bing, Loffredo Christopher A, Zheng Yun-Ling
Abstract excerpt
Although it is widely recognized that telomere dysfunction plays an important role in cancer, the relationship between telomere function and bladder cancer risk is not well defined. In a case-control study of bladder cancer in Egypt, we examined relationships between two telomere features and bladder cancer risk. Telomere fluorescent in situ hybridization was used to measure telomere features using short-term...
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