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Vegetable/fruit, smoking, glutathione S-transferase polymorphisms and risk for colorectal cancer in Taiwan.
World journal of gastroenterology - 14 Mar 2005
Yeh Chih-Ching, Hsieh Ling-Ling, Tang Reiping, Chang-Chieh Chung-Rong, Sung Fung-Chang
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AIM: To investigate the colorectal cancer risk associated with polymorphic GSTM1, GSTT1 and GSTP1 and the effect of diet and smoking. METHODS: With consents, genotypes of the genes were determined using PCR methods for 727 cases and 736 sex and age-matched healthy controls recruited at a medical center in the Northern Taiwan. Nurses who were blind to the study hypothesis conducted interviews with study...
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