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Validation of genetic sequence variants as prognostic factors in early-stage head and neck squamous cell cancer survival.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Jan 2012
Azad Abul Kalam, Bairati Isabelle, Samson Elodie, Cheng Dangxiao, Mirshams Maryam, Qiu Xin, Savas Sevtap, Waldron John, Wang Changshu, Goldstein David, Xu Wei, Meyer Francois, Liu Geoffrey
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: From the published literature, we identified 23 germ line sequence variants in 17 genes from hypothesis-generating studies that were associated with prognosis of head and neck cancer, including sequence variants of DNA repair (ERCC1, ERCC4, ERCC5, MSH2, XPA, ERCC2, XRCC1, XRCC3), DNA methylation (DNMT3B), cell cycle and proliferation (CCND1, TP53), xenobiotic metabolism (GSTM1, GSTT1, CYP2D6), metastatic...
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