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Individuals with certain germline pathogenic variants had a substantially higher risk for developing gastric cancer after Helicobacter pylori infection, results of a Japan-based case-control study showed.The findings, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, suggest risk for gastric cancer is more heavily related to hereditary factors than previously thought, the investigators noted.