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Metabolic genetic polymorphisms and susceptibility to lung cancer.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 May 2001
Bouchardy C, Benhamou S, Jourenkova N, Dayer P, Hirvonen A
Abstract excerpt
Activity of some enzymes implicated in the metabolism of tobacco carcinogens presents a great variability between individuals due to the existence of a polymorphism in gene coding for these enzymes. Individual susceptibility to develop lung cancer could therefore depend not only on exposure to to...
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