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SUBMITTER: Choi CK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7200175 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Choi Chang Kyun CK Kweon Sun Seog SS Cho Sang Hee SH Kim Hye Yeon HY Shin Min Ho MH
Journal of Korean medical science 20200504 17
The association between alcohol and gastric cancer is stronger in East Asians than in other ethnic groups, presumably due to an aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (<i>ALDH2</i>) polymorphism. Therefore, we investigated the relationship between the <i>ALDH2</i> rs671 polymorphism and gastric cancer in a Korean population. This case-control study included 3,245 hospital patients newly diagnosed with gastric cancer and 8,732 population controls. The <i>ALDH2</i> rs671 genotype was classified as inactive <i>A ...[more]