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    Tobacco biomarkers and genetic/epigenetic analysis to investigate ethnic/racial differences in lung cancer risk among smokers

    The Multiethnic Cohort Study has demonstrated that African Americans and Native Hawaiians have a higher risk for lung cancer due to cigarette smoking than Whites while Latinos and Japanese Americans have a low...

    Sharon E. Murphy, Sungshim Lani Park, Silvia Balbo… in npj Precision Oncology (2018)

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    Tobacco smoke carcinogens, DNA damage and p53 mutations in smoking-associated cancers

    It is estimated that cigarette smoking kills over 1 000 000 people each year by causing lung cancer as well as many other neoplasmas. p53 mutations are frequent in tobacco-related cancers and the mutation load...

    Gerd P Pfeifer, Mikhail F Denissenko, Magali Olivier, Natalia Tretyakova… in Oncogene (2002)