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Genetic risk of DNA repair gene polymorphisms (XRCC1 and XRCC3) for high risk human papillomavirus negative cervical cancer in Northeast Thailand.
Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP - 1 Jan 2011
Settheetham-Ishida Wannapa, Yuenyao Pissamai, Natphopsuk Sitakan, Settheetham Dariwan, Ishida Takafumi
Abstract excerpt
To identify risk factors other than high risk human papillomavirus infection for the development of cervical cancer, functional polymorphisms of DNA repair genes, XRCC1 Arg399Gln and Arg194Trp and XRCC3 Thr241Met, were studied among Northeastern Thai women. Cases (n=111) were defined as squamous cell cervical cancer and controls (n=118) were recruited from healthy women without cervical abnormalities. The XRCC1...
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