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Prediction of response to chemotherapy by ERCC1 immunohistochemistry and ERCC1 polymorphism in ovarian cancer.
International journal of gynecological cancer : official journal of the International Gynecological Cancer Society - 1 Jan 2000
Steffensen K D, Waldstrøm M, Jeppesen U, Brandslund I, Jakobsen A
Abstract excerpt
The response of tumor cells to platinum-based chemotherapy involves DNA repair mechanisms. Excision repair cross-complementation group 1 (ercc1) is one of the leading genes involved in DNA repair, and several studies have linked ercc1 to platinum resistance in cell lines and in human cancers. A common single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of ercc1 at codon 118 has been proposed to impair ercc1 translation and...
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