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p53 and K-ras mutations in lung cancers from former and never-smoking women.
Cancer research - 1 Jun 2001
Vähäkangas K H, Bennett W P, Castrén K, Welsh J A, Khan M A, Blömeke B, Alavanja M C, Harris C C
Abstract excerpt
Somatic p53 mutations are common in lung cancer. Active cigarette smoking is positively correlated with the total frequency of p53 mutations and G:C to T:A transversions on the nontranscribed (DNA coding) strand. Mutational hotspots within the p53 gene, e.g., codon 157, have been identified for tobacco-related lung cancer, whereas these same mutations are found rarely in other cancers. Such data implicate...
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