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Significant association between FasL gene -844T/C polymorphism and risk to hepatocellular carcinoma in Egyptian patients.
Immunology letters - 1 Apr 2016
Khalifa Rania H, Bahgat Dina M Rasheed, Darwish Hatem Abdel Hamid, Shahin Rasha Mohamad Hosny
Abstract excerpt
Fas/Fas ligand (FasL) system is the most critical apoptotic signaling entity in the extrinsic apoptotic pathway; hence mutations affecting this pathway may prevent the immune system from the removal of newly-formed tumor cells, and thus lead to tumor formation. The present study investigated the association between the FasL -844T/C polymorphism and the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in a cohort of...
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