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Evidence for increased somatic cell mutations in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.
Carcinogenesis - 1 Feb 1997
Okada S, Ishii H, Nose H, Okusaka T, Kyogoku A, Yoshimori M, Wakabayashi K
Abstract excerpt
The measurement of somatic cell mutation may assist in the assessment of human cancer risk. The glycophorin A (GPA) assay, which measures the frequency of variant erythrocytes in persons with blood type MN, was used to directly assess in vivo mutability in 30 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). HCC patients showed significantly increased frequencies of both hemizygous (MO) and homozygous (MM) variants,...
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