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Effect of Genetic Polymorphisms and Long-Term Tobacco Exposure on the Risk of Breast Cancer.
International journal of molecular sciences - 14 Oct 2016
Verde Zoraida, Santiago Catalina, Chicharro Luis Miguel, Reinoso-Barbero Luis, Tejerina Alejandro, Bandrés Fernando, Gómez-Gallego Félix
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: Tobacco smoke contains many potentially harmful compounds that may act differently and at different stages in breast cancer development. The focus of this work was to assess the possible role of cigarette smoking (status, dose, duration or age at initiation) and polymorphisms in genes coding for enzymes involved in tobacco carcinogen metabolism (CYP1A1, CYP2A6) or in DNA repair (XRCC1, APEX1, XRCC3...
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