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Role of glutathione peroxidase 1 in breast cancer: loss of heterozygosity and allelic differences in the response to selenium.
Cancer research - 15 Jun 2003
Hu Ya Jun, Diamond Alan M
Abstract excerpt
A role for allelic variation within the gene for the antioxidant selenoprotein glutathione peroxidase 1 (GPx-1) in the risk or etiology of breast cancer was investigated. By analyzing the frequency of a polymorphism within the GPx-1 gene resulting in a leucine or proline at codon 198, it was dete...
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