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XRCC1 polymorphisms and lung cancer risk in Chinese populations: a meta-analysis.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Sept 2009
Zheng Huilie, Wang Zhongxu, Shi Xiuquan, Wang Zengzhen
Abstract excerpt
X-ray repair cross-complementing group 1 (XRCC1), one of the >20 genes that participate in the base excision repair (BER) pathway, is thought to account for differences in lung cancer susceptibility. Our meta-analysis on 2861 cases (lung cancer patients) and 2783 controls from eight eligible studies in Chinese populations showed that for the XRCC1 Arg194Trp polymorphism, compared with the Arg/Arg homozygous...
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