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Genetic polymorphism at the glutathione S-transferase (GST) P1 locus is a breast cancer risk modifier.
International journal of cancer - 1 Feb 2001
Maugard C M, Charrier J, Pitard A, Campion L, Akande O, Pleasants L, Ali-Osman F
Abstract excerpt
The isolation of full-length cDNAs of naturally occurring GSTP1 gene variants, and the demonstration that these alleles are distributed in the normal population, have provided conclusive evidence that the human GSTP1 gene locus is polymorphic and that specific GSTP1 alleles may be associated with different risk for cancers or other diseases. Recent data have indicated that the different GSTP1 alleles encode...
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