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Genetic variations in TERT-CLPTM1L genes and risk of lung cancer in Chinese women nonsmokers.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Li Cheng, Yin Zhihua, Wu Wei, Li Xuelian, Ren Yangwu, Zhou Baosen
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BACKGROUND: The TERT gene is the reverse transcriptase component of telomerase and is essential for the maintenance of telomere DNA length, chromosomal stability and cellular immortality. CLPTM1L gene encodes a protein linked to cisplatin resistance, and it is well conserved and express in various normal or malignant tissues, including lung. METHODS: To test this hypothesis, we genotyped for two significant SNPs...
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