Genetic variant in visfatin gene promoter contributes to reduced risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in a Chinese population.

In addition, our research showed a trend toward the CC genotype appearing among HCC patients of Han ethnicity; therefore, a relatively smaller sample size may be another reason for the inconsistent results.

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Furthermore, in their study, trends of association within a co-dominant model, dominant model, and recessive model were evident but did not achieve significance; however, there seemed to be a trend toward the incidence of the CC genotype among patients when compared to controls (25.8% in patients and 19.9% in controls) [ 23 ].

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