DNA repair gene polymorphisms and bladder cancer susceptibility in a Turkish population

Bensu Karahalil1, Neslihan Aygün Kocabas, Tayfun Ozçelik

  • 1Gazi University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Toxicology, Ankara, Turkey. bensu@gazi.edu.tr

Anticancer Research
|January 12, 2007
PubMed
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