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Meat, metabolic genotypes and risk for colorectal cancer.
European journal of cancer prevention : the official journal of the European Cancer Prevention Organisation (ECP) - 1 Jul 1999
Roberts-Thomson I C, Butler W J, Ryan P
Abstract excerpt
Persuasive data exist as to the importance of environmental factors in the pathogenesis of sporadic colorectal cancer. One possibility is that the effect of environmental factors varies between individuals, perhaps on the basis of inherited variation (polymorphism) in genes which influence the activation or inactivation of dietary carcinogens. Thus far, the focus has been on acetylator genes (NAT1, NAT2) and the...
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