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New gastric cancer study findings recently were published by researchers at Shiraz University

Published in Cancer Weekly, May 5th, 2009

" The glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) are a superfamily of proteins that participates in detoxification. The GSTs were dividing into several classes including omega (GSTO), mu (GSTM) and theta (GSTT) classes," scientists in Iran report.

"In human GSTO2, GSTM1, and GSTT1 are polymorphic. In order to study whether GSTO2, GSTM1, and GSTT1 polymorphisms are associated with increased gastric cancer risk in Iranian patients, the present case-control study was done. Genomic DNA was extracted from peripheral blood of 67 gastric cancer patients and 134 control subjects. The genotyping was performed using PCR-based method. The possible association of gastric cancer with the...

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