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SUBMITTER: Oduor CI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4155573 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Oduor Cliff I CI Chelimo Kiprotich K Ouma Collins C Mulama David H DH Foley Joslyn J Vulule John J Bailey Jeffrey A JA Moormann Ann M AM
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20140728 3
Overexpression of interleukin-6 (IL-6) and IL-10 in endemic Burkitt lymphoma (eBL) may facilitate tumorigenesis by providing a permissive cytokine milieu. Promoter polymorphisms influence interindividual differences in cytokine production. We hypothesized that children genetically predisposed for elevated cytokine levels may be more susceptible to eBL. Using case-control samples from western Kenya consisting of 117 eBL cases and 88 ethnically matched healthy controls, we tested for the associati ...[more]