TY - JOUR AU - da Silva, Andréa Lúcia Gonçalves AU - da Rosa, Helen Tais AU - Karnopp, Thaís Evelyn AU - Charlier, Clara Forrer AU - Ellwanger, Joel Henrique AU - Moura, Dinara Jaqueline AU - Possuelo, Lia Gonçalves AU - Valim, Andréia Rosane de Moura AU - Guecheva, Temenouga Nikolova AU - Henriques, João Antonio Pêgas PY - 2013 DA - 2013/09/20 TI - Evaluation of DNA damage in COPD patients and its correlation with polymorphisms in repair genes JO - BMC Medical Genetics SP - 93 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - We investigated a potential link between genetic polymorphisms in genes XRCC1 (Arg399Gln), OGG1 (Ser326Cys), XRCC3 (Thr241Met), and XRCC4 (Ile401Thr) with the level of DNA damage and repair, accessed by comet and micronucleus test, in 51 COPD patients and 51 controls. SN - 1471-2350 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2350-14-93 DO - 10.1186/1471-2350-14-93 ID - da Silva2013 ER -