Association between the XRCC1 polymorphisms and glioma risk: a meta-analysis of case-control studies.

BACKGROUND: X-ray repair cross-complementing group 1 (XRCC1) is one of the DNA repair genes encoding a scaffolding protein that participate in base excision repair (BER) pathway. However, studies on the association between polymorphisms in this gene and glioma have yielded conflicting results. This...

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Main Authors: Lei Jiang, Xiao Fang, Yi Bao, Jue-Yu Zhou, Xiao-Yan Shen, Mao-Hua Ding, Yi Chen, Guo-Han Hu, Yi-Cheng Lu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3559473?pdf=render