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Association of specific p53 polymorphisms with keratosis in individuals exposed to arsenic through drinking water in West Bengal, India.
Mutation research - 10 Oct 2006
De Chaudhuri Sujata, Mahata Julie, Das Jayanta K, Mukherjee Angshuman, Ghosh Papiya, Sau Tanmoy Jyoti, Mondal Lakshmikanta, Basu Santanu, Giri Ashok K, Roychoudhury Susanta
Abstract excerpt
Although, more than six million people are endemically exposed to inorganic arsenic in West Bengal, India by drinking heavily contaminated groundwater, only about 300,000 people show arsenic induced skin lesions. This suggests that genetic variability plays an important role in arsenic induced sk...
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