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A new xeroderma pigmentosum group C poly(AT) insertion/deletion polymorphism.
Carcinogenesis - 1 Oct 2000
Khan S G, Metter E J, Tarone R E, Bohr V A, Grossman L, Hedayati M, Bale S J, Emmert S, Kraemer K H
Abstract excerpt
We found a common biallelic polymorphism (PAT) in the xeroderma pigmentosum complementation group C (XPC) DNA repair gene consisting of an insertion of 83 bases of A and T [poly(AT)] and a 5 base deletion within intron 9. We developed a PCR assay to resolve the XPC PAT+ and PAT- alleles and found that the PAT+ allele frequency was 0.44 in 156 cancer-free donors from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 0.41...
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