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The Interaction between Dietary Selenium Intake and Genetics in Determining Cancer Risk and Outcome.
Nutrients - 12 Aug 2020
Kadkol Shrinidhi, Diamond Alan M
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There is considerable interest in the trace element selenium as a possible cancer chemopreventive dietary component, but supplementation trials have not indicated a clear benefit. Selenium is a critical component of selenium-containing proteins, or selenoproteins. Members of this protein family contain selenium in the form of selenocysteine. Selenocysteine is encoded by an in-frame UGA codon recognized as a...
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