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Factors affecting HPRT mutant frequency in T-lymphocytes of smokers and nonsmokers.
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology - 1 Jan 2000
Jones I M, Moore D H, Thomas C B, Thompson C L, Strout C L, Burkhart-Schultz K
Abstract excerpt
The frequency of thioguanine-resistant, hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase-deficient lymphocytes in the peripheral blood of human subjects was used to study the genotoxic effects of smoking. Sixty-two nonsmokers and 58 smokers, aged 19 to 45 years with average ages of 30 and 32 years, respectively, and with no other known exposures, were studied using an in vitro assay of the frequency of mutant lymphocyte...
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