Article
The role of XRCC6/Ku70 in nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
International journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery - 1 Dec 2015
Huang C-Y, Tsai C-W, Hsu C-M, Shih L-C, Chang W-S, Shui H-A, Bau D-T
Abstract excerpt
The association between XRCC6/Ku70, an upstream player in the DNA double-strand break repair system, and the risk of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) was examined. In this case-control study, 176 NPC patients and 352 cancer-free controls were genotyped, and the associations of XRCC6 promoter T-991C (rs5751129), promoter G-57C (rs2267437), promoter G-31A (rs132770), and intron 3 (rs132774) polymorphisms with NPC...
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