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Polymorphisms of DNA repair genes are risk factors for prostate cancer.
European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990) - 1 Jan 2007
Hirata Hiroshi, Hinoda Yuji, Tanaka Yuichiro, Okayama Naoko, Suehiro Yutaka, Kawamoto Ken, Kikuno Nobuyuki, Majid Shahana, Vejdani Kaveh, Dahiya Rajvir
Abstract excerpt
DNA repair gene alterations have been shown to cause a reduction in DNA repair capacity. We hypothesised that DNA repair gene polymorphisms may be risk factors for prostate cancer (PC). To test this hypothesis, DNA samples from 165 cases of prostate cancer and healthy controls were analyzed by PCR-RFLP to determine the genotypic frequency of three DNA repair genes (XRCC1, XPC and XRCC7). We found that the...
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