| Vicarious George
The president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids complains that snus will "increase the number of people who use tobacco," letting "the big companies win no matter what tobacco products people use." But the goal shouldn't be to stamp out tobacco or make companies lose. The goal should be to save lives. .
Kenyan police break up protest
At least a hundred opposition supporters had gathered in Kisumu, the country's third city, to vent their anger following the murder a day earlier in Nairobi of opposition MP Mugabe Were. "First they started killing the ordinary people like us, now they are killing our leaders, we won't accept it," one demonstrator, Justus Othieno, told AFP. Were, a member of opposition leader Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), was shot dead outside his house by unknown gunmen late on Monday, a police commander said. The police official said the murder appeared to be linked to the dispute that erupted over the December 27 presidential poll which returned incumbent President Mwai Kibaki to office amid accusations of mass fraud. - AFP .
Importance of TP53 codon 72 and intron 3 duplication 16bp ...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of Arg72Pro and PIN3 Ins16bp polymorphisms in TP53 gene as genetic susceptibility and predictive markers to breast cancer. Methods We analysed DNA samples from 264 breast cancer patients and 440 controls, for TP53 Arg72Pro and PIN3 Ins16bp polymorphisms using PCR-RFLP. Results We observed that women with A2A2 genotype have increased risk for developing breast cancer, either in women with or without familial history (FH) of the disease (OR=4.40, 95% CI 1.60-12.0; p=0.004; OR=3.88, 95% CI 1.18-12.8; p=0.026, respectively). In haplotype analysis, statistically significant differences were found betweenTP53 Arg-A2 haplotype frequencies and familial breast cancer cases and the respective control group (OR=2.10, 95% CI 1.08-4.06; p=0.028).
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