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Chilean pilot study on the risk of lung cancer associated with codon 72 polymorphism in the gene of protein p53.
Toxicology letters - 15 Sept 2003
Irarrázabal Carlos E, Rojas Claudio, Aracena Rosa, Márquez Carola, Gil Lionel
Abstract excerpt
The p53 gene has a polymorphism at codon 72 that presents the arginine or proline genotype, although this polymorphism has been associated with genetically determined susceptibility to lung cancers, the literature has not been consistent with this association. In Chile lung cancer represents the second cause of mortality from cancer. p53 codon 72 polymorphism frequency was studied in a Chilean subpopulation of...
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