Major series in different tumor patients reporting the frequency of each genotype of the MMP-1 promoter
| N = | Genotype (% of total number tested) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G/G | GG/GG | G/GG | |||||
| Rutter et al. (15) | Controls | 100 | 31 | 30 | 39 | ||
| Tumor cell lines | 8 | 12.5 | 62.5 | 25 | |||
| Kanamori et al. (18) | Controls | 150 | 20 | 43 | 37 | ||
| Ovarian cancer | 163 | 11 | 37 | 52 | |||
| Nishioka et al. (24) | |||||||
| Endometrial carcinoma | 100 | 9 | 50 | 41 | |||
| Ye et al. (25) | Controls | 142 | 29 | 23 | 48 | ||
| Cutaneous malignant melanoma | 139 | 24 | 29 | 47 | |||
| Present study | Chondrosarcoma | 67 | 27 | 22 | 51 | ||