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Nucleotide excision repair pathway genes and oral premalignant lesions.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 15 Jun 2007
Wang Yunfei, Spitz Margaret R, Lee J Jack, Huang Maosheng, Lippman Scott M, Wu Xifeng
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PURPOSE: Oral premalignant lesions (OPL) are associated with tobacco exposure and an increase in risk of oral cancer. Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is one of the major DNA repair pathways involved in the removal of tobacco carcinogen adducts. Polymorphisms in NER genes may cause variations in...
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