Whether a person develops stomach cancer depends partly on their genes, new research suggests. As John Whitfield reports, this discovery could help prevent the disease.
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El-Omar,E. M., Carrington, M. et al. Interleukin-1 polymorphisms associated with increased risk of gastric cancer. Nature 404, 398 2000.
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Whitfield, J. Whose genes can stomach cancer?. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news000323-10
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/news000323-10