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Prenatal exposure to flavonoids: implication for cancer risk.
Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology - 1 Mar 2011
Vanhees Kimberly, de Bock Laura, Godschalk Roger W L, van Schooten Frederik J, van Waalwijk van Doorn-Khosrovani Sahar Barjesteh
Abstract excerpt
Flavonoids are potent antioxidants, freely available as high-dose dietary supplements. However, they can induce DNA double-strand breaks (DSB) and rearrangements in the mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL) gene, which are frequently observed in childhood leukemia. We hypothesize that a deficient DSB repair, as a result of an Atm mutation, may reinforce the clastogenic effect of dietary flavonoids and increase the...
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