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| Pereira,Rinaldo W.; Pires,Edina R.; Duarte,Ana P.M.; Moura,Ricardo P. de; Monteiro,Elisangela; Torloni,Humberto; Proietti,Anna B.; Simpson,Andrew J.G.; Pena,Sérgio D.J.. |
| The identification of a 32-bp deletion in the cc-chemokine receptor-5 gene (CCR5delta32 allele) that renders homozygous individuals highly resistant to HIV infection has prompted worldwide investigations of the frequency of the CCR5delta32 allele in regional populations. It is important to ascertain if CCR5delta32 is a factor to be considered in the overall epidemiology of HIV in individual populations. With this in mind we determined the CCR5delta32 allele frequency in a large sample (907 individuals) of the southeastern Brazilian urban population, stratified as follows: 322 healthy unrelated individuals, 354 unselected colorectal cancer patients, and 229 blood donors. The three groups displayed essentially identical allelic frequencies of CCR5delta32 and... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
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| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572000000300003 |
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| Bevilacqua,Roberta A.U.; Corvello,Cassandra M.; Duarte,Ana Paula; Simpson,Andrew J.G.. |
| A crucial role for the adenomatous polyposis colonic (APC) gene in colorectal carcinogenesis has been conclusively established, but, the role of APC in gastric tumors remains controversial. APC mutations have been detected at a relatively high frequency in gastric tumors of Japanese patients, yet such mutations have been reported to be extremely rare in British patients and patients from north-central-Italy. We here report the analysis of 40 primary sporadic gastric adenocarcinomas and 35 primary sporadic colon adenocarcinomas (from patients resident in São Paulo, Brazil), for mutations in the APC gene between codons 686 and 1693 using the protein truncation test. Although 19 truncating mutations were detected in 35 colon adenocarcinomas (54.2%) none were... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
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| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572000000200001 |
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