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World J Gastroenterol. Apr 28, 2008; 14(16): 2534-2539
Published online Apr 28, 2008. doi: 10.3748/wjg.14.2534
Alteration of sister chromatid exchange frequencies in gastric cancer and chronic atrophic gastritis patients with and without H pylori infection
Ali Karaman, Dogan Nasir Binici, Mehmet Esref Kabalar, Hakan Dursun, Ali Kurt
Ali Karaman, Department of Medical Genetics, State Hospital, Erzurum 25240, Turkey
Dogan Nasir Binici, Department of Internal Medicine, State Hospital, Erzurum 25240, Turkey
Mehmet Esref Kabalar, Ali Kurt, Department of Pathology, State Hospital, Erzurum 25240, Turkey
Hakan Dursun, Department of Gastroenterology, State Hospital, Erzurum 25240, Turkey
Author contributions: Karaman A performed SCE analysis in the lymphocytes of all subjects, analyzed all of the data and wrote the article; Binici DN and Dursun H performed endoscopic operations; Kabalar EM and Kurt A analyzed all biopsy materials.
Correspondence to: Ali Karaman, MD, Erzurum State Hospital, (Erzurum Numune Hastanesi), Department of Medical Genetics, Erzurum 25240, Turkey. alikaramandr@hotmail.com
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Received: November 23, 2007
Revised: February 15, 2008
Published online: April 28, 2008
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