Characterization of Functional Excision Repair Cross-Complementation Group 1 Variants and Their Association with Lung Cancer Risk and Prognosis

Dianke Yu, Xuemei Zhang, Ju Liu, Peng Yuan, Wen Tan, Yongli Guo, Tong Sun, Dan Zhao, Ming Yang, Junniao Liu,

Clinical Cancer Research · 2008 · 76 citations · 36 references

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Abstract

These findings are consistent with the notion that DNA repair is a double-edged sword in cancer and suggest that functional single-nucleotide polymorphisms in ERCC1 might serve as simple and less invasive biomarkers for personalized chemotherapy of platinum-based anticancer drugs.

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