Association of rare alleles of the Harvey ras protooncogene locus with lung cancer.

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Association of rare alleles of the Harvey ras protooncogene locus with lung cancer.

Cancer research - 15 Mar 1990

Sugimura H, Caporaso N E, Modali R V, Hoover R N, Resau J H, Trump B F, Longergan J A, Krontiris T G, Mann D L, Weston A

Abstract excerpt

The hypothesis that rare variable nucleotide tandem repeat alleles of the Ha-ras-1 polymorphism are an inherited predisposing factor in human lung carcinogenesis has been evaluated in an age, race, and smoking matched case-control study. Twenty-three different alleles were identified by their res...

Topics

Adenocarcinoma
Alleles
Case-Control Studies
Cells, Cultured
DNA
DNA, Neoplasm
Gene Frequency
Genes, ras
Humans
Lung Diseases, Obstructive
Lung Neoplasms
Lymphocytes

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