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Nucleotide Excision Repair Capacity and XPC and XPD Gene Polymorphism Modulate Colorectal Cancer Risk.
Clinical colorectal cancer - 1 Jun 2018
Mucha Bartosz, Pytel Dariusz, Markiewicz Lukasz, Cuchra Magda, Szymczak Izabela, Przybylowska-Sygut Karolina, Dziki Adam, Majsterek Ireneusz, Dziki Lukasz
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BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is leading malignant tumors to occur mainly in industrialized countries, where it exhibits one of the highest mortality rates. Up to 80% of all CRCs characterize a chromosomal instability (CIN) phenotype. The main challenge faced by scientist is to reveal the mechanism of CIN development. An often proposed model is defects in DNA repair in terms of efficiency and genetic...
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