Genetic susceptibility to environmental and occupational cancers.

doi:10.1023/a:1018421724776

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Genetic susceptibility to environmental and occupational cancers.

Cancer causes & control : CCC - 1 May 1997

Ishibe N, Kelsey K T

Abstract excerpt

Epidemiologic evidence on the relation between genetic susceptibility and cancer is reviewed. Traditional epidemiologic studies have identified various exposure-related associations with cancer. Most conventional approaches to environmental and occupational cancer have not been able to address sp...

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Acetyltransferases
Carcinogens
DNA Repair
Environmental Exposure
Gene Expression
Genes
Genetic Linkage
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Humans
Molecular Biology
Molecular Epidemiology
Neoplasms
Occupational Diseases
Occupational Exposure
Phenotype
Polymorphism, Genetic

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