Reza Zaferani

Mofid Children’s Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

[ 1 ] - The Mitochondrial DNA 4977-bp Deletion in Patients with Colorectal Cancer: a Case-control Study in Iran

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide, and its occurrence can be ascribed to genetic susceptibility. Mitochondrial DNA 4977-bp (mtDNA 4977), as the most described mtDNA deletion, has been long proposed to be involved in various types of cancers. However, a few studies on mtDNA 4977-bp deletion in Iranian patients with CRC have been reported. The cu...

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