A SNP in a let-7 microRNA Complementary Site in the KRAS 3′ Untranslated Region Increases Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer Risk
Chin LJ, Ratner E, Leng S, Zhai R, Nallur S, Babar I, Muller RU, Straka E, Su L, Burki EA, Crowell RE, Patel R, Kulkarni T, Homer R, Zelterman D, Kidd KK, Zhu Y, Christiani DC, Belinsky SA, Slack FJ, Weidhaas JB. A SNP in a let-7 microRNA Complementary Site in the KRAS 3′ Untranslated Region Increases Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer Risk. Cancer Research 2008, 68: 8535-8540. PMID: 18922928, PMCID: PMC2672193, DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-08-2129.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNon-small cell lung cancerCase-control studyLung cancer riskIndependent case-control studiesLung cancerSingle nucleotide polymorphismsCancer riskNon-small cell lung cancer riskCell lung cancer riskVariant allelesCell lung cancerKRAS 3' untranslated regionLung cancer susceptibilityUnidentified single-nucleotide polymorphismsNSCLC patientsModerate smokersNSCLC cancerNSCLC casesCancer deathKRAS overexpressionCancerCancer susceptibilityOncogene expressionPatientsRisk