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The primary aim of ISGS is to test the association between ischemic stroke and the following putative risk factor polymorphisms: β-fibrinogen C148T, G448A, and G455A; GPIa C807T; GPIbα HPA-2 and VNTR; and GPIIb/IIIa P1A.
In some studies, obesity appears to be a risk factor for wheezing among non-allergic children.
The relative level of a factor present at low concentration should be easier to change than that of a factor present at high concentration.
For example, this seems particularly likely in the case of the site-directed mutagenesis of the transcription factor ATF-2 discussed above.
Estrogen and progesterone, which stimulate the growth of breast epithelium, are two crucial hormones involved not only in normal breast development but also in carcinogenesis of breast epithelium and progression of breast cancer [ 28 ] . About 40% of breast cancers are ER-negative [ 28 ] . ER-negative tumors are unresponsive to anti-estrogen therapy, probably because of constitutive growth factor expression [ 28 29 ] . In general, these tumors have a higher histologic grade and a higher proliferative rate and are associated with poorer prognosis [ 28 ] . The finding that 100% of ER-negative tumors expressed BP1 might therefore be highly relevant to both the prognosis and therapy of those difficult-to-treat tumors.