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p53 mutations in bladder cancer: evidence for exogenous versus endogenous risk factors.
Cancer research - 1 Nov 2003
Schroeder Jane C, Conway Kathleen, Li Yu, Mistry Kusum, Bell Douglas A, Taylor Jack A
Abstract excerpt
Bladder cancer is associated with smoking, occupational exposures, and glutathione S-transferase (GST) M1 and N-acetyltransferase (NAT) 2 polymorphisms that may influence carcinogen metabolism, but somatic p53mutations are often CpG dinucleotide G:C-A:T transitions that can occur spontaneously. We conducted a case-control study to determine whether p53mutation characteristics might distinguish cases with...
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