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The PTPN13 Y2081D (T>G) (rs989902) polymorphism is associated with an increased risk of sporadic colorectal cancer.
Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland - 1 Jul 2017
Laczmanska I, Karpinski P, Gil J, Laczmanski L, Makowska I, Bebenek M, Ramsey D, Sasiadek M M
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AIM: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide and, although the majority of cases are sporadic, its development and progression depends on a range of factors: environmental, genetic and epigenetic. A variety of genetic pathways have been described as being crucial in CRC, including protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs). PTPN13 (also called FAP-1) is a non-receptor PTP and interacts with...
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