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Slow N-acetylation genotype is a susceptibility factor in occupational and smoking related bladder cancer.
Human molecular genetics - 1 Feb 1995
Risch A, Wallace D M, Bathers S, Sim E
Abstract excerpt
Bladder cancer is a common multifactorial disease and is known to be associated with occupational exposure to arylamines. Smoking is also a recognised contributory environmental cause. Occupational bladder cancer has previously been associated with slow acetylation by N-acetyltransferase (NAT) in humans in phenotyping studies, but more recently there has been some controversy regarding this issue. NAT is an...
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