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The effect of tobacco, XPC, ERCC2 and ERCC5 genetic variants in bladder cancer development.
BMC cancer - 22 Mar 2011
Rouissi Kamel, Bahria Islem Ben, Bougatef Karim, Marrakchi Raja, Stambouli Nejla, Hamdi Khouloud, Cherif Mohamed, Ben Slama Mohamed Riadh, Sfaxi Mohamed, Othman Fethi Ben, Chebil Mohamed, Elgaaied Amel Benammar, Ouerhani Slah
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: In this work, we have conducted a case-control study in order to assess the effect of tobacco and three genetic polymorphisms in XPC, ERCC2 and ERCC5 genes (rs2228001, rs13181 and rs17655) in bladder cancer development in Tunisia. We have also tried to evaluate whether these variants affect the bladder tumor stage and grade. METHODS: The patients group was constituted of 193 newly diagnosed cases of...
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