Experts smoke out lung cancer genes

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Experts smoke out lung cancer genes [1]

Scientists have found important genetic differences between people that may help explain why some smokers get lung cancer and others do not. Three teams from France, Iceland and the United States said on Wednesday that they had pinpointed a region of the genome containing genes that can put smokers at even greater risk of contracting the killer disease. In all three studies, nicotine appears a major culprit.

Publication Date:

04/04/2008

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]

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Medical Research [3], Smoking [4], Lung Cancer [5], Genetic Resources [6], France [7]

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