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DNA repair gene polymorphisms and risk of early onset colorectal cancer in Lynch syndrome.
Cancer epidemiology - 1 Apr 2012
Reeves Stuart G, Meldrum Cliff, Groombridge Claire, Spigelman Allan, Suchy Janina, Kurzawski Grzegorz, Lubinski Jan, Scott Rodney J
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DNA repair plays a pivotal role in maintaining genomic integrity with over 130 genes involved in various repair pathways that include base excision repair, nucleotide excision repair, double strand break repair and DNA mismatch repair. Polymorphisms within genes that are involved in these processes have been widely reported to be associated with cancer susceptibility in an extensive range of malignancies that...
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