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SUBMITTER: Yang JP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4509320 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yang Jian-Ping JP Li Xin X Wang Feng F Gao Ming M Li Sheng-Lei SL Chen Kui-Sheng KS
International journal of clinical and experimental medicine 20150515 5
Adiponectin is a cytokine exclusively secreted from adipocyte, and could perform direct or indirect effects on anti-inflammation and anti-tumor. Previous researches have studied the correlation between plasma adiponectin levels and the risk of pancreatic cancer. So we aimed at investigating the association of genetic variants of adiponectin gene and the risk of pancreatic cancer. In this study, we genotyped 6 SNPs of adiponectin gene in a case-control study of recruited 172 patients of pancreati ...[more]