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Interaction between smoking and CYP2C19*3 polymorphism increased risk of lung cancer in a Chinese population.
Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine - 1 Jun 2014
Yan Fei, Xu Jin-Fu, Liu Xiao-fang, Li Xing-Hua
Abstract excerpt
Cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2C19 is expressed in vascular endothelium and metabolizes arachidonic acid to biologically active epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs), which play a crucial role in either the detoxification or inactivation of potential carcinogens, or the bioactivation of some environmental procarcinogens to reactive DNA-binding metabolites. And smoking is a major risk factor for lung cancer. The purpose of...
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