Article
ERCC1 and ERCC2 variants predict survival in gastric cancer patients.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Li Yangkai, Liu Zhensheng, Liu Hongliang, Wang Li-E, Tan Dongfeng, Ajani Jaffer A, Wei Qing-Yi
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: ERCC1 and ERCC2 play critical roles in the nucleotide excision repair pathway that effectively repairs DNA damage induced by chemotherapeutic agents. Therefore, functional single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in these genes could have an impact on clinical outcomes in cancer patients who received chemotherapy. However, few studies have simultaneously investigated the roles of ERCC1 and ERCC2 SNPs in...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Endonucleases
- Female
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Proportional Hazards Models
