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Impact of HFE variants and sex in lung cancer.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2019
Lee Sang Y, Walter Vonn, Zhu Junjia, Salzberg Anna C, Liu Dajiang J, Connor James R
Abstract excerpt
The homeostatic iron regulator protein HFE is involved in regulation of iron acquisition for cells. The prevalence of two common HFE gene variants (H63D, C282Y) has been studied in many cancer types; however, the impact of HFE variants, sex and HFE gene expression in lung cancer has not been studied. We determined the prevalence of HFE variants and their impact on cancer phenotypes in lung cancer cell lines, in...
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