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A prospective study of XRCC1 (X-ray cross-complementing group 1) polymorphisms and breast cancer risk.
Breast cancer research : BCR - 1 Jan 2005
Patel Alpa V, Calle Eugenia E, Pavluck Alexandre L, Feigelson Heather Spencer, Thun Michael J, Rodriguez Carmen
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INTRODUCTION: The gene XRCC1 (X-ray repair cross-complementing group 1) encodes a protein involved in DNA base excision repair. Two non-synonymous polymorphisms in XRCC1 (Arg194Trp and Arg399Gln) have been shown to alter DNA repair capacity in some studies in vitro. However, results of previous a...
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