| Literature DB >> 9542526 |
E A Price1, S L Bourne, R Radbourne, P A Lawton, J Lamerdin, L H Thompson, J E Arrand.
Abstract
DNA repair defects might contribute both to cancer progression and to the extreme reactions to radiotherapy observed in approximately 5% of patients. Polymorphic microsatellites in three DNA repair genes, XRCC1, XRCC3 and XRCC5, were analyzed for possible linkage to cancer status or clinical radiosensitivity. XRCC1, 3 and 5 proteins are involved in single-strand DNA break rejoining, recombinational repair, and double-strand DNA break rejoining respectively. Mendelianly inherited microsatellite polymorphisms in these genes were analyzed in three groups: volunteers with no cancer history; radiosensitive cancer patients; cancer patients with acceptable reactions to radiotherapy. Rare heterozygous alterations in all three gene regions were found solely in the cancer subpopulation. Association testing between these rare polymorphisms and cancer status revealed a significant association for XRCC1 (P = 0.005), and XRCC3 (P = 0.004). There was also an association between these polymorphisms and clinical radiosensitivity for XRCC1 (P = 0.03), and XRCC3 (P = 0.005).Entities:
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Year: 1997 PMID： 9542526 DOI： 10.1007/BF02674415
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Somat Cell Mol Genet ISSN： 0740-7750