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Metabolic enzyme polymorphisms and susceptibility to acute leukemia in adults.
American journal of pharmacogenomics : genomics-related research in drug development and clinical practice - 1 Jan 2002
Morgan Gareth J, Smith Martyn T
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Genetic approaches to understanding the etiology of the acute leukemias are beginning to deliver meaningful insights. Polymorphic variants in xenobiotic metabolizer loci were a natural starting point to study the relevance of these changes. The finding that glutathione S-transferase (GST) T1 null variants increase leukemia risk has implicated oxidative stress in hematopoietic stem cells as an important...
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