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The XPC poly-AT polymorphism in non-melanoma skin cancer.
Cancer letters - 26 May 2005
Nelson Heather H, Christensen Brock, Karagas Margaret R
Abstract excerpt
Signature UV-DNA lesions, cyclobutane dimers and 6-4 photoproducts, are repaired via the nucleotide excision repair pathway. NER may be subdivided into transcription-coupled repair and global genome repair, and the XPC protein is specific to this latter repair pathway recognizing helix distorting lesions and initiating their repair. Inactivating XPC mutations are associated with xeroderma pigmentosa and an...
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