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SUBMITTER: Corral R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4016180 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Corral Roman R Lewinger Juan Pablo JP Van Den Berg David D Joshi Amit D AD Yuan Jian-Min JM Gago-Dominguez Manuela M Cortessis Victoria K VK Pike Malcolm C MC Conti David V DV Thomas Duncan C DC Edlund Christopher K CK Gao Yu-Tang YT Xiang Yong-Bing YB Zhang Wei W Su Yu-Chen YC Stern Mariana C MC
International journal of cancer 20140113 2
Tobacco smoking is a bladder cancer risk factor and a source of carcinogens that induce DNA damage to urothelial cells. Using data and samples from 988 cases and 1,004 controls enrolled in the Los Angeles County Bladder Cancer Study and the Shanghai Bladder Cancer Study, we investigated associations between bladder cancer risk and 632 tagSNPs that comprehensively capture genetic variation in 28 DNA repair genes from four DNA repair pathways: base excision repair (BER), nucleotide excision repair ...[more]