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SUBMITTER: Zhou Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6305015 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhou Zhonghan Z Ma Xiaocheng X Wang Fangming F Sun Lijiang L Zhang Guiming G
Disease markers 20181202
Although the matrix metalloproteinase-1 (MMP1) polymorphism <i>MMP1</i>-1607 (1G>2G) has been associated with susceptibility to various cancers, these findings are controversial. Therefore, we conducted this meta-analysis to explore the association between <i>MMP1</i>-1607 (1G>2G) and cancer risk. A systematic search of literature through PubMed, Embase, ISI Web of Knowledge, and Google Scholar yielded 77 articles with 21,327 cancer patients and 23,245 controls. The association between the <i>MM ...[more]