Rare exonic minisatellite alleles in MUC2 influence susceptibility to gastric carcinoma.

BACKGROUND: Mucins are the major components of mucus and their genes share a common, centrally-located region of sequence that encodes tandem repeats. Mucins are well known genes with respect to their specific expression levels; however, their genomic levels are unclear because of complex genomic pr...

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Main Authors: Yun Hee Jeong, Min Chan Kim, Eun-Kyung Ahn, So-Young Seol, Eun-Ju Do, Hong-Jo Choi, In-Sun Chu, Wun-Jae Kim, Woo Jin Kim, Yangil Sunwoo, Sun-Hee Leem
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2065792?pdf=render