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Breast Cancer
Recent findings in breast cancer described by researchers from Seoul National University, Medical Department
July 24th, 2008
According to a study from Seoul, South Korea, "Objectives This study was conducted to evaluate the potential role of CASP8 genetic polymorphisms in the etiology of breast cancer in a case-control study, Korea. Incident breast cancer cases confirmed histologically (n = 1,599) were recruited from two hospitals in Seoul during 2001-2005." "Control subjects (n = 1,536) were selected from the Health Examinee Cohort from Seoul and Gyeonggi Province surrounding Seoul, Korea. Three SNPs (D302H D> H, 5'-UTR C> T, and K337K G> A) were genotyped by the primer extension assay. The CASP8 D302H, which was not polymorphic in 48 samples, was excluded in further genotyping....
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-07-24)
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