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Breast Cancer
New breast cancer data have been reported by D.C. Deleon and co-authors
April 30th, 2009
"The development of breast cancer is multifactorial. Hormonal, environmental factors and genetic predisposition, among others, could interact in the presentation of breast carcinoma," researchers in Mexico report. "Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles play an important role in immunity (cellular immunity) and may be important genetic traits. HLAAllele-specific interaction has not been well established. Recently, several studies had been conducted in order to do so, but the results are controversial and in some instances contradictory. We designed a case-control study to quantify the association of HLA class I and II genes and breast cancer. HLA typing was performed by...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-04-30)
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