Uncommon TGFBRI allele is not associated
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Wade S. Samowitz; Karen Curtin; Mark F. Leppert; Martha L. Slattery
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Article
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2001
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Previous studies have suggested that an allele of the transforming growth factorβbeta type I receptor (__TGFBRI__) gene that codes for six instead of the usual nine alanines in a polyalanine repeat is associated with an increased susceptibility to colon cancer, and that the sixβalanine