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Investigation of Potentially Deleterious Alleles for Response to Cancer Treatment with 5-Fluorouracil.
Anticancer research - 1 Dec 2015
Cavalcante Giovanna Chaves, Freitas Natalle Do Socorro Da Costa, Ribeiro-Dos-Santos André Maurício, De Carvalho Darlen Cardoso, Da Silva Ellen Moreno, De Assumpção Paulo Pimentel, Ribeiro-Dos-Santos Ândrea, Santos Sidney, Dos Santos Ney Pereira Carneiro
Abstract excerpt
AIM: To investigate polymorphisms that are probable indicators of response variability during cancer treatment with 5-fluorouracil (rs16430, rs2279198, rs1801159 and rs17878362). MATERIALS AND METHODS: We investigated 1,038 individuals regarding allele distribution from different populations, out of which we genotyped 127 individuals from a Brazilian admixed population. Similarity analyses with parental...
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