The effect of XPD polymorphisms on digestive tract cancers risk: a meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND: The Xeroderma pigmento-sum group D gene (XPD) plays a key role in nucleotide excision repair. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) located in its functional region may alter DNA repair capacity phenotype and cancer risk. Many studies have demonstrated that XPD polymorphisms are signific...

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Main Authors: Haina Du, Nannan Guo, Bin Shi, Qian Zhang, Zhipeng Chen, Kai Lu, Yongqian Shu, Tao Chen, Lingjun Zhu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4008560?pdf=render