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Prevalence of disease-related DNA polymorphisms among participants in a large cancer prevention trial.
European journal of cancer prevention : the official journal of the European Cancer Prevention Organisation (ECP) - 1 Oct 1999
Woodson K, Ratnasinghe D, Bhat N K, Stewart C, Tangrea J A, Hartman T J, Stolzenberg-Solomon R, Virtamo J, Taylor P R, Albanes D
Abstract excerpt
Genetic susceptibility polymorphisms may be of substantial importance in the modulation of cancer risk. The prevalence for an array of polymorphic genes was determined in a cohort of male smokers who participated in a cancer prevention trial in Finland. A random sample of 120 individuals was selected from the trial cohort and the prevalence of variant alleles for nine genes was determined using a polymerase chain...
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