Esophageal Cancer
Study findings on esophageal cancer are outlined in reports from University of Texas
Published in Cancer Weekly, May 5th, 2009
According to recent research from the United States, "MicroRNAs (miRNA) can act as oncogenes or tumor suppressors and modulate the expression of approximately one third of all human genes. To test the hypothesis that adverse alleles in miRNA-related genes may increase the risk for esophageal cancer, we assessed the associations between esophageal cancer risk and 41 potentially functional single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in 26 miRNA-related genes in a case-control study of 346 Caucasian esophageal cancer patients (85.5% with esophageal adenocarcinoma) and 346 frequency-matched (age, gender, and ethnicity) controls."
"Seven SNPs were significantly associated with...
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-05-05)
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