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. 1994 Apr;69(4):759–761. doi: 10.1038/bjc.1994.143

Increased frequency of the S allele of the L-myc oncogene in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

P E Crossen 1, M J Morrison 1, B M Colls 1
PMCID: PMC1968797  PMID: 7908219

Abstract

We studied 100 patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, 44 patients with Hodgkin's disease and 100 controls for the prevalence of the EcoRI restriction fragment polymorphism of the L-myc oncogene. No difference in the frequency of the three genotypes (LL, LS, SS) was found between the patient and control groups. However, the S allele was found to occur more frequently in the non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patients (chi 2 = 4.57, P = 0.032). These data confirm an earlier report and suggest that the presence of the S allele is associated with susceptibility to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

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