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Interaction of tobacco smoking and chewing with Angiotensin converting enzyme (insertion/deletion) gene polymorphisms and risk of lung cancer in a high risk area from northeast India.
Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP - 1 Jan 2014
Phukan Rup Kumar, Borah Prasanta Kumar, Saikia Bhaskar Jyoti, Das Mandakini, Sekhon Gaganpreet Singh, Mahanta Jagadish
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BACKGROUND: Association of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) gene polymorphisms with lung cancer susceptibility remains uncertain and varies with ethnicity. Northeast India represents a geographically, culturally, and ethnically isolated population. The area reports an especially high rate of tobacco usage in a variety of ways of consumption, compared with the rest of the Indian population. MATERIALS AND...
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