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SUBMITTER: Lee YC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2676936 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Yuan-Chin Amy YC Morgenstern Hal H Greenland Sander S Tashkin Donald P DP Papp Jeanette J Sinsheimer Janet J Cao Wei W Hashibe Mia M You Nai-Chieh Y NC Mao Jenny T JT Cozen Wendy W Mack Thomas M TM Zhang Zuo-Feng ZF
International journal of cancer 20080401 7
Tobacco smoking is a major risk factor for lung and upper-aerodigestive-tract (UADT) cancers. One possible mechanism for the associations may be through DNA damage pathways. DNA Ligase I (LIG1) is a DNA repair gene involved in both the nucleotide excision repair (NER) and the base excision repair (BER) pathways. We examined the association of 4 LIG1 polymorphisms with lung and UADT cancers, and their potential interactions with smoking in a population-based case-control study in Los Angeles Coun ...[more]