Relationship of Helicobacter pylori vacA i1 and i2 alleles with gastric cancer risk, Iran: brief report

Background: Helicobacter pylori vacA (vacuolating toxin A) gene is comprised of mid- (m), intermediate- (i) and signal-regions. Recently, the vacA-i region genotype has been suggested to be a better predictor of disease severity than either the s- or m-region. The main aim of the present study was t...

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Main Authors: Batool Mottaghi, Reza Safaralizadeh, Morteza Jabbarpour Bonyadi, Saeid Latifi-Navid, Mohammad Hossien Somi, Majid Mahdavi
Format: Article
Language:fas
Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2014-12-01
Series:Tehran University Medical Journal
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Online Access:http://tumj.tums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-25-5277&slc_lang=en&sid=1