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Health survey and assessment of the polymorphisms BRCA1/P871L, BRCA1/Q356R, and BRCA2/N372H in female gas station workers in Rio de Janeiro.
Environmental and molecular mutagenesis - 1 Dec 2017
Silvestre Rafaele T, Delmonico Lucas, Bravo Maryah, Santiago Fábio, Scherrer Luciano R, Moreira Aline Dos Santos, Tabalipa Marianne, Otero Ubirani, Ornellas Maria Helena F, Alves Gilda
Abstract excerpt
Gas station workers are exposed to chemicals known to be carcinogenic, especially benzene. The objective was to analyze the health problems of female gas station workers by means of sociodemographic and clinical questionnaires, and laboratorial exams. We performed the genotyping of the polymorphisms BRCA1/P871L and BRCA1/Q356R by Polymerase Chain Reaction-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism, and of variant...
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