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SUBMITTER: Yuan H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3438586 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yuan Hua H Li Huizhang H Ma Hongxia H Niu Yuming Y Wu Yunong Y Zhang Shangyue S Hu Zhibin Z Shen Hongbing H Chen Ning N
Experimental and therapeutic medicine 20120209 4
Although tobacco and alcohol consumption are the major risk factors of head and neck cancer (HNC), genetic variations of genes involved in several biological pathways, such as DNA repair genes, may affect an individual's susceptibility to HNC. However, few studies have investigated the associations between polymorphisms in DNA repair genes and HNC risk in the Chinese population. Thus, we genotyped five common, non-synonymous single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) [APEX1 (Asp148Glu), XRCC1 (Arg39 ...[more]