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Risk of childhood leukemia associated with diagnostic irradiation and polymorphisms in DNA repair genes.
1 Jun 2000
Abstract excerpt
The purpose of the study was to measure risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia associated with reported postnatal diagnostic X rays and to determine if it was modified in the presence of variants in genes involved in DNA repair. We conducted a population-based case-control study with 491 cases and 491 healthy controls among children 0-9 years of age at diagnosis. To evaluate gene-environment interaction,...
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