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Polymorphisms in base excision repair genes and thyroid cancer risk.
Oncology reports - 1 Nov 2012
Santos Luís S, Branco Sandra C, Silva Susana N, Azevedo Ana Paula, Gil Octávia M, Manita Isabel, Ferreira Teresa C, Limbert Edward, Rueff José, Gaspar Jorge F
Abstract excerpt
Thyroid cancer (TC) is the most frequent endocrine malignancy, accounting however for only 1-2% of all human cancers, and the best-established risk factor for TC is radiation exposure, particularly during childhood. Since the BER pathway seems to play an important role in the repair of DNA damage induced by IR and other genotoxicants, we carried out a hospital-based case-control study in order to evaluate the...
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