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XRCC1 polymorphisms and head and neck cancer.
Cancer letters - 25 Apr 2002
Olshan Andrew F, Watson Mary A, Weissler Mark C, Bell Douglas A
Abstract excerpt
Inter-individual differences in DNA repair capacity have been demonstrated using a variety of phenotypic assays, including reduced repair among patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN). The XRCC1 DNA repair gene may facilitate DNA strand break and base excision repair. A recent case-control study of SCCHN reported associations with two polymorphisms of the XRCC1 including the exon 6,...
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