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SUBMITTER: Oliveira VA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7561070 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Oliveira Victor Alves de VA Chagas Diego Cipriano DC Amorim Jefferson Rodrigues JR Pereira Renato de Oliveira RO Nogueira Thais Alves TA Borges Victória Maria Luz VML Campos-Verde Larysse Maira LM Martins Luana Mota LM Rodrigues Gilmara Peres GP Nery Júnior Elmo de Jesus EJ Sampaio Fabiane Araújo FA Lopes-Costa Pedro Vitor PV Sousa João Marcelo de Castro E JMCE Silva Vladmir Costa VC Silva Felipe Cavalcanti Carneiro da FCCD Silva Benedito Borges da BBD
Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) 20201026
<h4>Objective</h4>This study aimed to determine the relationship between rs17576 (MMP-9) polymorphism and increased cancer risk in a Brazilian breast cancer cohort.<h4>Methods</h4>This study included 141 women (71 breast cancer patients and 70 controls without breast cancer) who donated 3 mL of their peripheral blood for genomic DNA extraction. This DNA was then genotyped using a real-time polymerase chain reaction.<h4>Results</h4>The AG (rs17576) genotype was identified in 26 (18.43%) participa ...[more]