Functional polymorphisms and haplotypes
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Gangqiao Zhou; Yun Zhai; Ying Cui; Wei Qiu; Hao Yang; Xiumei Zhang; Xiaojia Dong
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Communicated by Stephen Chanock Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) play important roles in cancer initiation and development. Several polymorphisms in the promoters of a number of MMP genes, which can affect the respective MMP production in an allele-specific manner, have been well characterized.