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Variability in estrogen-metabolizing genes and their association with genomic instability in untreated breast cancer patients and healthy women.
Journal of biomedicine & biotechnology - 1 Jan 2011
dos Santos Raquel Alves, Teixeira Ana Cláudia, Mayorano Mônica Beatriz, Carrara Hélio Humberto Angotti, de Andrade Jurandyr, Takahashi Catarina Satie
Abstract excerpt
In the present study, we investigated the relationship between polymorphisms in the estrogen-metabolizing genes CYP17, CYP1B1, CYP1A1, and COMT and genomic instability in the peripheral blood lymphocytes of 62 BC patients and 62 controls considering that increased or prolonged exposure to estrogen can damage the DNA molecule and increase the genomic instability process in breast tissue. Our data demonstrated...
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