[PDF] Top 20 The effect of cigarette smoking and DNA methyltransferase genes polymorphisms on urothelial carcinoma risk in Taiwan

... Martial and Methods Total 159 and 308 matched cases and controls were respectively recruited at the Department of Urology and Family Medicine, China Medical University Hospital ... See full document

... carcinogens in tobacco smoke. We evaluated the influence of common genetic variation in the NER pathway on bladder cancer risk by analyzing 22 single nucleotide ... See full document

... cumulative cigarette smoking exhibited an increased risk of ...vitamin in green leafy vegetables, citrus fruits, and legumes, is the initial methyl donor in ... See full document

... that of the controls at 22.14% (n = 89). Subjects carrying the Arg/Arg genotype had a signi ficantly increased risk of UC (OR = ...between the p53 or CCND1 genotype and UC ... See full document

... tobacco smoking exposure and arsenic methylation capability on the risk of bladder cancer (Chen, et ...Theta and Zeta. These enzymes could detoxify xenobiotics by ... See full document

... as the sum of iAs 3+ , iAs 5+ , MMA 5+ and DMA 5+ . The relative proportion of each arsenic species (InAs%, MMA% and DMA%) was calculated by dividing the concentration ... See full document

... carrying the p21 Arg/Arg genotype had an increased UC risk (age and gender adjusted ...association of p53 or CCND1 polymorphisms with DC ...observed in terms of a ... See full document

... Genomic DNA was prepared from peripheral blood leukocytes using a QIAamp Blood Mini Kit (Blossom, Taipei, Taiwan) and further processed according to previous studies [Wang HC, Liu CS, Wang CH, Tsai ... See full document

... malignancy in the urinary tract system. Environmental risk factors, including arsenic exposure through drinking well water, cigarette smoking and ETS, are considered major ... See full document

... limitations of this study. First, the family history of stroke or cardiovascular disease was not in- cluded in our analysis, which might reduce the precision of our ... See full document

... meta-analysis and evaluation of the effects of gene – gene and gene – lifestyle interactions ...analyzed the association between hOGG1 codon 326 genotype and lung cancer ... See full document

... with the SULT 213His allele (G allele), which has been shown to be associated with lower enzyme activity and decreased mutagen activation [39] , which might therefore result in a protective ... See full document

... OPMD risk, which is in agreement with previous studies ...meta-analysis of 19 studies reported no association between the GSTM1-null genotype and oral and pharyngeal cancers , 2 ... See full document

... tion of NO, likely because of the induction of NOS activity in urothelial ...avoid the confounding from BCG instillations, those with recurrent UC and those who had ... See full document

... Effects of Interleukin-10 Polymorphisms and Smoking on the Risk of Gastric Cancer in Taiwan Wu-Hsien Kuo 1,2,3,* , Chung-Yu Huang 4,5,* , Chun-Kai Fu ... See full document

... Materials and methods Study participants A hospital-based case–controlled study was ...constructed. The study design has been described previously ...cases and 300 healthy participants as controls ... See full document

... illustrate the potential role of image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) in dose escalation for the treatment of patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung ...review on ... See full document

... Aromatic amines from cigarette smoking or occupational exposure, recognized risk factors for bladder cancer, are metabolized by N-acetyltransferases (NAT).. This study examined the ass[r] ... See full document

... controls and patients with UCC. The distributions of genotype and allele frequencies of GAS5 polymorphisms among patients with UCC and the control participants are ... See full document

... Staging and grading of tumors was carried out according to the criteria of the tumor-node- metastasis (TNM) staging system and the World Health Organization International ... See full document