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Genetic polymorphism of XRCC1 and lung cancer risk among African-Americans and Caucasians.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Dec 2001
David-Beabes G L, London S J
Abstract excerpt
Reduced DNA repair capacity may influence susceptibility to lung cancer. XRCC1 plays an important role in base excision repair and in rejoining DNA strand breaks. In the XRCC1 gene, two common polymorphisms induce amino acid changes in codon 194 and codon 399 and correlate with levels of genotoxi...
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