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February 18, 2020SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología25 citationsOpen Access

Sex hormones and genetic variants in hormone metabolic pathways associated with the risk of colorectal cancer

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SLShuwei LiYCYehua ChenLXLisheng Xie

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This is the first study to show that 2-MeO-E1 and a genetic variant in COMT contribute to the susceptibility to colorectal cancer. These results shed light on the different incidence of colorectal cancer between the sexes.

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Li et al. (2020) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d917a116f0d2beeba3c037https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.105543
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