Early onset lung cancer, cigarette smoking and the SNP309 of the murine double minute-2 (MDM2) gene.

BMC Cancer · 2008 · PMC2377274 · PMID 18433484

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closest p · 1.6× alpha

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almost significantp = 0.08so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

A gender difference was almost significant (p = 0.08) for the much smaller single center case-sample of the HLC-study.

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failed to achieve significancep = 0.237not close (p > 0.1)

Although a possible NSCLC risk modification of MDM2 SNP309 seems to be reverse between men and women, we failed to achieve significance for this gender difference (p = 0.237).

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