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DIAGNOSTIC X RAYS, DNA REPAIR GENES AND CHILDHOOD ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA
1 Jul 2003
Abstract excerpt
A model for childhood leukemia proposes that characteristic chromosomal translocations can arise in utero and that for most cases a second hit occurring postnatally will be necessary. Possible causal mechanisms for leukemias are environmental factors such as ionizing radiation from x rays and inherited susceptibility from polymorphisms in DNA repair genes. We performed a case-control study of childhood acute...
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