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OJEDA,JOSÉ M; AMPUERO,SANDRA; ROJAS,PATRICIO; PRADO,RODRIGO; ALLENDE,JORGE E; BARTON,SARA A; CHAKRABORTY,RANAJIT; ROTHHAMMER,FRANCISCO. |
Storey et al. (1998) implicated the proline/argine polymorphism of the codon 72 of the tumor-suppressor gene p53 in the development of cervical cancer (CC) with the observation that the p53 protein is more efficiently inactivated by the E6 oncoprotein of human papillomavirus in p53 arginine as compared with its proline isoform. These authors further noted that in the United Kingdom, individuals homozygous for the arginine allele were several times more susceptible to HPV-associated tumorigenesis that proline/arginine heterozygotes. Subsequent studies in different countries failed to unanimously confirm this association. Motivated by the high incidence of CC in Chile, we undertook a case control study obtaining the following frequencies for genotypes PP, AP... |
Tipo: Journal article |
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Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602003000200017 |
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