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Smoking and susceptibility to thyroid cancer: an inverse association with CYP1A1 allelic variants.
Endocrine-related cancer - 1 Dec 2006
Bufalo Natassia E, Leite Janaina L, Guilhen Ana C T, Morari Elaine C, Granja Fabiana, Assumpcao Ligia V M, Ward Laura S
Abstract excerpt
In contrast to most human malignancies, epidemiologic studies have frequently reported a reduced risk of differentiated thyroid cancer in tobacco consumers. Cytochrome P4501A1 (CYP1A1) gene variants may be related to an increased capacity to activate polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, producing highly reactive electrophilic intermediates that might damage DNA. Hence, the germline inheritance of a wild-type CYP1A1...
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