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Copy number variants of GSTM1 and GSTT1 in relation to lung cancer risk in a prospective cohort study.
Annals of epidemiology - 1 Aug 2009
Lam Tram Kim, Ruczinski Ingo, Helzlsouer Kathy, Shugart Yin Yao, Li Kelly E, Clipp Sandra, Strickland Paul T, Alberg Anthony J
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PURPOSE: Previous studies did not discriminate wild-type from hemizygous genotypes of GSTM1 and GSTT1. In this study, we investigated wild-type, hemizygous deletion, and homozygous deletion genotypes of GSTM1 and GSTT1 and lung cancer risk. METHODS: We conducted a nested case-control study of 143 primary incident lung cancer cases matched to 447 cancer-free controls. Genotyping was carried out using a real-time...
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