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Variations in Prkdc and susceptibility to benzene-induced toxicity in mice.
Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology - 1 Oct 2003
Faiola Brenda, Bauer Alison K, Fuller Elizabeth S, Wong Victoria A, Pluta Linda J, Abernethy Diane J, Mangum James B, Everitt Jeffrey I, Recio Leslie
Abstract excerpt
Benzene, a carcinogen that induces chromosomal breaks, is strongly associated with leukemias in humans. Possible genetic determinants of benzene susceptibility include proteins involved in repair of benzene-induced DNA damage. The catalytic subunit of DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PKcs), encoded by Prkdc, is one such protein. DNA-PKcs is involved in the nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) pathway of DNA...
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