Effects of ADAMTS14 genetic polymorphism and cigarette smoking on the clinicopathologic development of hepatocellular carcinoma.

BACKGROUND:ADAMTS14 is a member of the ADAMTS (a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin motifs), which are proteolytic enzymes with a variety of further ancillary domain in the C-terminal region for substrate specificity and enzyme localization via extracellular matrix association. Ho...

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Main Authors: Ming-Jen Sheu, Ming-Ju Hsieh, Ying-Erh Chou, Po-Hui Wang, Chao-Bin Yeh, Shun-Fa Yang, Hsiang-Lin Lee, Yu-Fan Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5322915?pdf=render