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Functional characterization of nucleotide polymorphisms in the coding region of N-acetyltransferase 1.
Pharmacogenetics - 1 Aug 2001
Fretland A J, Doll M A, Leff M A, Hein D W
Abstract excerpt
N-acetyltransferase 1 (NAT1) catalyses the activation and/or deactivation of aromatic and heterocyclic amine carcinogens. A genetic polymorphism in NAT1 is associated with an increased risk of various cancers and drug toxicities, but epidemiological investigations are severely compromised by a poor understanding of the relationship between NAT1 genotype and phenotype. Human reference NAT1*4 and 12 known human...
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