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Manganese superoxide dismutase polymorphism and risk of skin cancer (United States).
Cancer causes & control : CCC - 1 Feb 2007
Han Jiali, Colditz Graham A, Hunter David J
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OBJECTIVE: We assessed whether the functional V16A polymorphism in the MnSOD gene is associated with skin cancer risk. METHODS: We conducted a nested case-control study (219 melanoma, 286 squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), and 300 basal cell carcinoma (BCC) cases, and 873 matched controls) within the Nurses' Health Study. Genotyping was performed by the 5' nuclease assay (TaqMan). We used logistic regression to model...
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