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SUBMITTER: Erichsen HC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3490215 | biostudies-literature | 2008
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Erichsen Hans Christian HC Peters Ulrike U Eck Peter P Welch Robert R Schoen Robert E RE Yeager Meredith M Levine Mark M Hayes Richard B RB Chanock Stephen S
Nutrition and cancer 20080101 5
Previous observational studies suggest that vitamin C may reduce risk of colorectal cancer. Vitamin C transport is facilitated by membrane bound sodium-dependent transporters, SVCT1 (encoded by SLC23A1) and SVCT2 (encoded by SLC23A2). To investigate if common genetic variants in these two genes are associated with risk of colorectal tumor development, we conducted a case-control study of 656 Caucasian advanced distal colorectal adenoma cases and 665 Caucasian sigmoidoscopy-negative controls nest ...[more]