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Benzene Uptake and Glutathione S-transferase T1 Status as Determinants of S-Phenylmercapturic Acid in Cigarette Smokers in the Multiethnic Cohort.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Haiman Christopher A, Patel Yesha M, Stram Daniel O, Carmella Steven G, Chen Menglan, Wilkens Lynne R, Le Marchand Loic, Hecht Stephen S
Abstract excerpt
Research from the Multiethnic Cohort (MEC) demonstrated that, for the same quantity of cigarette smoking, African Americans and Native Hawaiians have a higher lung cancer risk than Whites, while Latinos and Japanese Americans are less susceptible. We collected urine samples from 2,239 cigarette smokers from five different ethnic groups in the MEC and analyzed each sample for S-phenylmercapturic acid (SPMA), a...
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