Expression data from the human nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell line CNE2Z transfected with AGO2 shRNAs or control shRNA

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is an epithelial malignancy with striking racial and geographic distribution differences. Furthermore, numerous genetic linkage and association studies have reported a few genes contributing to the risk of this malignancy. The identification of susceptibility genes contributing to NPC would assist in predicting individual and population risk of NPC development and would help to clarify the pathogenesis relevant to this disorder. Argonaute 2 (AGO2), a central component of RNA-induced silencing complex, plays critical roles in cancer. We examined whether the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of AGO2 were related to the risk of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC).

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