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SUBMITTER: Kuruma S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4265605 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kuruma Sawako S Egawa Naoto N Kurata Masanao M Honda Goro G Kamisawa Terumi T Ueda Junko J Ishii Hiroshi H Ueno Makoto M Nakao Haruhisa H Mori Mitsuru M Matsuo Keitaro K Hosono Satoyo S Ohkawa Shinichi S Wakai Kenji K Nakamura Kozue K Tamakoshi Akiko A Nojima Masanori M Takahashi Mami M Shimada Kazuaki K Nishiyama Takeshi T Kikuchi Shogo S Lin Yingsong Y
World journal of gastroenterology 20141201 46
<h4>Aim</h4>To examine whether diabetes-related genetic variants are associated with pancreatic cancer risk.<h4>Methods</h4>We genotyped 7 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in PPARG2 (rs1801282), ADIPOQ (rs1501299), ADRB3 (rs4994), KCNQ1 (rs2237895), KCNJ11 (rs5219), TCF7L2 (rs7903146), and CDKAL1 (rs2206734), and examined their associations with pancreatic cancer risk in a multi-institute case-control study including 360 cases and 400 controls in Japan. A self-administered questionnaire wa ...[more]