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Genetic polymorphisms of HOTAIR gene are associated with the risk of breast cancer in a sample of southeast Iranian population.
Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine - 1 Oct 2017
Hassanzarei Shekoufeh, Hashemi Mohammad, Sattarifard Hedieh, Hashemi Seyed Mehdi, Bahari Gholamreza, Ghavami Saeid
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There is an increasing body of evidence which highlights the critical functions of long non-coding RNAs in the carcinogenicity mechanism of a variety of cancers. It has been reported that HOX transcript antisense intergenic RNA, a member of long non-coding RNA family, increases breast cancer risk. To date, no data regarding the association between HOX transcript antisense intergenic RNA polymorphisms and the risk...
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