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Elevated breast cancer risk in irradiated BALB/c mice associates with unique functional polymorphism of the Prkdc (DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit) gene.
Cancer research - 1 Mar 2001
Yu Y, Okayasu R, Weil M M, Silver A, McCarthy M, Zabriskie R, Long S, Cox R, Ullrich R L
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Female BALB/c mice are unusually radiosensitive and more susceptible than C57BL/6 and other tested inbred mice to ionizing radiation (IR)-induced mammary tumors. This breast cancer susceptibility is correlated with elevated susceptibility for mammary cell transformation and genomic instability fo...
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