Association of Cigarette Smoking with Aberrant Methylation of the Tumor Suppressor Gene RARβ2 in Papillary Thyroid Cancer.

Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) · 2011 · PMC3355964 · PMID 22649395

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closest p · 0.1× alpha

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boldest claim

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highly significantP = 0.005actually significant

marginally significantP = 0.06so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

This association was highly significant also in the subset of conventional variant PTC ( P = 0.005) and marginally significant in follicular variant PTC ( P = 0.06).

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showed a trendno p-value reported

Among the four genes, methylation of the RARβ2 gene was significantly associated with smoking and other three genes showed a trend of association.

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