“…We have sequenced exons and their flanking regions, including the promoter region (1.5 kb), to discover variants in 24 Korean unregulated individual DNA samples using the ABI PRISM 3700 DNA analyzer (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA Genotyping with fluorescence polarization detection Twenty polymorphisms of eight candidate genes that might be implicated in clearance of HBV infection and HCC occurrence were genotyped in this study, including -532C>T, -217G>A, -6A>G, and +3889C >T in AGT -472insdelA, -285C>A, +76003A>C, +84762C>G, and +86123C>T in CDH1 (Humar et al, 2002;Nakamura et al, 2002;Wang et al, 2003); -162C>G, +3552G>A, and +5789T>C in COX2 (Fritsche et al, 2001); -2518G>A and -2076A>T in MCP1 (Aguilar et al, 2001;Szalai et al, 2001;Kim et al, 2002); +69219G>T and +91191T>C in MDR1 (Jamroziak et al, 2004;Kajinami et al, 2004); -403G>A and -28C>G in RANTES (Liu et al, 1999); +36412T>G in THBS2; and +30275G> C in THBS4 (Topol et al, 2001;Boekholdt et al, 2002). In addition, three polymorphisms in chemokine receptor 4 (CXCR4) and vimentin (VIM), identified in this study, were also genotyped (Table 2).…”