Fatmah Ahmed Safhi, Tahani Mohamed Ibrahim Al-Hazani, Areej Saud Jalal, Manal Abdullah Alduwish, Dalal S Alshaya, Nawaf Abdulrahman Almufareh, Dalia Mostafa Domiaty, Eman Alshehri, Salha M Al-Shamrani, Tahani Saeed Abboosh, Mashael Alhumaidi Alotaibi, Maha Abdulla Alwaili, Wedad Saeed Al-Qahtani
Lifestyle factors, including smoking, have been linked to neoplastic diseases, and reports suggest an association between smoking and overexpression of FGFR (fibroblast growth factor receptor) in certain neoplasms. This study aims to assess the expression of FGFR3 and FGFR4 genes in patients with and without a history of smoking.A total of 118 participants were recruited, including 83 Juvenile Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma (JNA) patients and 35 healthy participants, the JNA patients were further stratified as smokers and nonsmokers...
September 1, 2023: Journal of Applied Genetics