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SUBMITTER: Hashemi M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5403193 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hashemi Mohammad M Amininia Shadi S Ebrahimi Mahboubeh M Simforoosh Nasser N Basiri Abbas A Ziaee Seyed Amir Mohsen SAM Narouie Behzad B Sotoudeh Mehdi M Mollakouchekian Mohammad Javad MJ Rezghi Maleki Esmaeil E Hanafi-Bojd Hamideh H Rezaei Maryam M Bahari Gholamreza G Taheri Mohsen M Ghavami Saeid S
Oncology letters 20170214 4
Tumor protein 53 (<i>TP53</i>), a tumor suppressor gene, is a vital cellular cancer suppressor in multicellular organisms. Murine double minute-2 (MDM2) is an oncoprotein that inhibits TP53 activity. A number of studies have examined the association of <i>TP53</i> and <i>MDM2</i> polymorphisms with the risk of common forms of cancer, but the findings remain inconclusive. The present study aimed to evaluate the impact of the 40-bp insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism (rs3730485) in the <i>MDM2</ ...[more]