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MYH Y165C and G382D mutations in hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma patients.
Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology - 1 Mar 2006
Baudhuin Linnea M, Roberts Lewis R, Enders Felicity T B, Swanson Russell L, Mettler Teresa A, Aderca Ileana, Stadheim Linda M, Highsmith W Edward
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PURPOSE: Production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) during chronic inflammation has been implicated in the progression of liver diseases and carcinogenesis. Subjects with inflammatory liver disease and one non-functional allele of the base excision repair gene, MYH, may be more susceptible to progression to cancer due to MYH haploinsufficiency in repairing oxidative damage caused by ROS. Here, we investigated...
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