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Impact of codon 72 Arg > Pro single nucleotide polymorphism in TP53 gene in the risk of kangri cancer: a case control study in Kashmir.
Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine - 1 Aug 2012
Pandith Arshad A, Khan Nighat P, Rashid Nargis, Azad Niyaz, Zaroo Inam, Hafiz Adil, Siddiqi Mushtaq A
Abstract excerpt
Kangri cancer found only in Kashmir (north India) is a unique thermally induced squamous cell carcinoma of the skin that develops because of chronic and persistent irritation due to the use of a kangri (a brazier) by the Kashmiri people to combat the chilling cold temperature during winter. Being unique to this region, the molecular etiology of the invasive kangri cancer is not known fully. The TP53 gene, codon...
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