Hepatocellular Cancer

Researchers from Shanghai Jiao-Tong University Report on Findings in Hepatocellular Cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, April 24th, 2012

2012 APR 24 -- In this recently published article, scientists in Shanghai, People's Republic of China conducted a study "Toll-like receptors (TLR) are key innate immunity receptors participating in an immune response. Growing evidence suggests that mutations of TLR2/TLR9 gene are associated with the progress of cancers."

"The present study aimed to investigate the temporal relationship of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) of TLR2/TLR9 and the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In this single center-based case-control study, SNaPshot method was used to genotype sequence variants of TLR2 and TLR9 in 211 patients with HCC and 232 subjects as...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2012-04-24)

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