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Patients with systemic sclerosis present increased DNA damage differentially associated with DNA repair gene polymorphisms.
The Journal of rheumatology - 1 Mar 2014
Palomino Gustavo Martelli, Bassi Carmen L, Wastowski Isabela J, Xavier Danilo J, Lucisano-Valim Yara M, Crispim Janaina C O, Rassi Diane M, Marques-Neto Joao F, Sakamoto-Hojo Elza T, Moreau Philippe, Sampaio-Barros Percival D, Donadi Eduardo A
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) exhibit increased toxicity when exposed to genotoxic agents. In our study, we evaluated DNA damage and polymorphic sites in 2 DNA repair genes (XRCC1 Arg399Gln and XRCC4 Ile401Thr) in patients with SSc. METHODS: A total of 177 patients were studied for DNA repair gene polymorphisms. Fifty-six of them were also evaluated for DNA damage in peripheral blood cells...
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