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Vinyl chloride-specific mutations in humans and animals.
IARC scientific publications - 1 Jan 1999
Marion M J, Boivin-Angele S
Abstract excerpt
Vinyl chloride is a potent hepatocarcinogen which reacts with DNA to generate etheno bases. In order to determine whether mutational patterns in target genes in vivo are characteristic of vinyl chloride and could be explained by the mutagenic properties of the etheno bases, human and rat liver tumours associated with exposure to vinyl chloride were analysed for point mutations in the ras and p53 genes. In this...
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