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Effect of Arg399Gln single-nucleotide polymorphism in XRCC1 gene on survival rate of Indian squamous cell head-and-neck cancer patients.
Journal of cancer research and therapeutics - 1 Jan 2000
Dutta Debnarayan, Abarna Rajadurai, Shubham Mehatre, Subbiah Kannan, Duraisamy Sriprakash, Chinnusamy Rayappa, Anbalagan Moorthy
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BACKGROUND: Head-and-neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is one of the most common cancers that contribute to 20%-40% of all cancer incidences in India. Indian patients with HNSCC are mostly associated with tobacco usage and may have different genetic alterations compared with Western patients who are mostly associated with human papillomavirus infection. Polymorphisms in DNA repair genes are correlated to...
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