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Arg257Cys polymorphism of CYP2A13 in a Chinese population.
Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry - 1 May 2004
Cheng Xin-Yuan, Chen Guo-Lin, Zhang Wei-Xia, Zhou Gan, Wang Dan, Zhou Hong-Hao
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Human cytochrome P450 2A13 (CYP2A13) is involved in the activation of numerous toxicants and carcinogens, especially in the metabolic activation of 4-(methyl-nitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK), a major tobacco-specific carcinogen. A functionally significant coding single nucleotide polymorphism (C3375T) in exon 5 of CYP2A13, which results in an amino acid substitution of Arg 257 to Cys, has...
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