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Linking polymorphic p53 response elements with gene expression in airway epithelial cells of smokers and cancer risk.
Human genetics - 1 Dec 2014
Wang Xuting, Pittman Gary S, Bandele Omari J, Bischof Jason J, Liu Gang, Brothers John F, Spira Avrum, Bell Douglas A
Abstract excerpt
Chronic cigarette smoking exposes airway epithelial cells to thousands of carcinogens, oxidants and DNA-damaging agents, creating a field of molecular injury in the airway and altering gene expression. Studies of cytologically normal bronchial epithelial cells from smokers have identified transcription-based biomarkers that may prove useful in early diagnosis of lung cancer, including a number of p53-regulated...
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