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SUBMITTER: Glebauskiene B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5282418 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Glebauskiene Brigita B Liutkeviciene Rasa R Vilkeviciute Alvita A Kriauciuniene Loresa L Jakstiene Silvija S Zlatkute Egle E Tamosiunas Abdonas A Zemaitiene Reda R Vaitkiene Paulina P Zaliuniene Dalia D
Disease markers 20170117
<i>Purpose</i>. To determine if the MMP-9 genotype has an influence on development of pituitary adenoma (PA). <i>Methodology</i>. The study enrolled <i>n</i> = 86 patients with PA and <i>n</i> = 526 healthy controls (reference group). The genotyping of MMP-9 was carried out using the real-time polymerase chain reaction method. <i>Results</i>. Our data demonstrated that the MMP-9 (-1562) C/C genotype was more frequent in PA group than in healthy controls (81.4% versus 64.6%, <i>p</i> = 0.002); C/ ...[more]