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Base excision repair genes and risk of lung cancer among San Francisco Bay Area Latinos and African-Americans.
Carcinogenesis - 1 Jan 2009
Chang Jeffrey S, Wrensch Margaret R, Hansen Helen M, Sison Jennette D, Aldrich Melinda C, Quesenberry Charles P, Seldin Michael F, Kelsey Karl T, Wiencke John K
Abstract excerpt
Base excision repair (BER) is the primary DNA damage repair mechanism for repairing small base lesions resulting from oxidation and alkylation damage. This study examines the association between 24 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) belonging to five BER genes (XRCC1, APEX1, PARP1, MUTYH and OGG1) and lung cancer among Latinos (113 cases and 299 controls) and African-Americans (255 cases and 280 controls)....
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