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Breast Cancer
New breast cancer research from M.N. Aoki and co-researchers described
April 30th, 2009
"The aim of this study was to investigate the CCR5 gene and p53 codon 72 polymorphisms in a Brazilian population with breast cancer compared with healthy control subjects and to associate the clinical stage with these genotypes. No differences were detected for the D32 allele between breast cancer patients and the normal healthy donors (p=0.270), although this allele was more often present in blood donors," scientists writing in the International Journal of Molecular Medicine report. "For p53 genotype analysis, breast cancer patients presented a significant (p <0.05) over-representation of p53 Arg homozygosity (55.5%) compared with the healthy control group...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-04-30)
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