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Rs10204525 Polymorphism of the Programmed Death (PD-1) Gene Is Associated with Increased Risk in a Saudi Arabian Population with Colorectal Cancer.
Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) - 13 Oct 2022
Al-Harbi Nouf, Vaali-Mohammed Mansoor-Ali, Al-Omar Suliman, Zubaidi Ahmed, Al-Obeed Omar, Abdulla Maha-Hamadien, Mansour Lamjed
Abstract excerpt
Checkpoint programmed death-1 (PD-1) has been identified as an immunosuppressive molecule implicated in the immune evasion of transformed cells. It is highly expressed in tumor cells in order to evade host immunosurveillance. In this study, we aimed to assess the association between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) of PD-1 and the risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) in the Saudi population. For this case-control...
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