| lack of association of mouse mammary tumor virus-like sequences in iranian breast cancer patients. | objective: the present study aimed to detect mouse mammary tumor virus (mmtv)-like sequences in iranian breast cancer patients in the city of shiraz, located in southwest iran. subjects and methods: we searched for two mmtv genetic regions in the peripheral blood leukocytes of 300 women with breast cancer, 300 age-matched healthy control subjects, and 50 breast tumor tissues. two regions of mmtv, 660 bp and 250 bp, were searched by nested polymerase chain reactions. results: none of the above tw ... | 2011 | 22213781 |