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MGMT genotype modulates the associations between cigarette smoking, dietary antioxidants and breast cancer risk.
Carcinogenesis - 1 Dec 2005
Shen Jing, Terry Mary Beth, Gammon Marilie D, Gaudet Mia M, Teitelbaum Susan L, Eng Sybil M, Sagiv Sharon K, Neugut Alfred I, Santella Regina M
Abstract excerpt
O(6)-methylguanine DNA methyl-transferase (MGMT) is the only known critical gene involved in cellular defense against alkylating agents in the DNA direct reversal repair (DRR) pathway. Three single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) coding for non-conservative amino acid substitutions have been identi...
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