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Cancer
Study data from Central South University update understanding of cancer
February 5th, 2009
According to recent research from Changsha, People's Republic of China, "The phenomenon of immunoglobulin (Ig) expression in cancer cells has been discovered recently; the Ig protein expressed and secreted in cancer cells was found to be in favor of tumor growth. Two single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) loci rs232230 (5658C/G) and rs232228 (3635T/C) were identified on Ig kappa gene previously, and we have demonstrated that they were associated with nasopharyngeal carcinoma susceptibility." "In the present study, we further performed the study focused on these two SNPs in gastric and breast cancer, trying to demonstrate the association between the genotypes of the two...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-02-05)
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