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Interaction of cigarette smoking and carcinogen-metabolizing polymorphisms in the risk of colorectal polyps.
Carcinogenesis - 1 Apr 2013
Fu Zhenming, Shrubsole Martha J, Li Guoliang, Smalley Walter E, Hein David W, Cai Qiuyin, Ness Reid M, Zheng Wei
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The causal role of cigarette smoking in the risk of colorectal neoplasm has been suggested but not established. In a case-control study including 2060 colorectal polyp patients and 3336 polyp-free controls, we evaluated 21 functional genetic variants to construct a tobacco-carcinogen-metabolizing...
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