Ageing and the telomere connection: An intimate relationship with inflammation

J Zhang, G Rane, X Dai, MK Shanmugam… - Ageing research …, 2016 - Elsevier
Telomeres are the heterochromatic repeat regions at the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes,
whose length is considered to be a determinant of biological ageing. Normal ageing itself is …

Micronuclei frequency in peripheral blood lymphocytes and cancer risk: evidence from human studies

S Bonassi, R El-Zein, C Bolognesi, M Fenech - Mutagenesis, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Over a century ago, Theodor Boveri paved the way to mechanistic studies linking
chromosomal abnormalities to cancer pathogenesis. Since then, theoretical and empirical …

The HUman MicroNucleus Project—an international collaborative study on the use of the micronucleus technique for measuring DNA damage in humans

M Fenech, N Holland, WP Chang, E Zeiger… - Mutation Research …, 1999 - Elsevier
The International Collaborative Project on Micronucleus Frequency in Human Populations
(HUMN) was organized to collect data on micronucleus (MN) frequencies in different human …

Formaldehyde exposure and leukemia: a new meta-analysis and potential mechanisms

L Zhang, C Steinmaus, DA Eastmond, XK Xin… - … Research/Reviews in …, 2009 - Elsevier
Formaldehyde is an economically important chemical, to which more than 2 million US
workers are occupationally exposed. Substantially more people are exposed to …

The role of folic acid and Vitamin B12 in genomic stability of human cells

M Fenech - … Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of …, 2001 - Elsevier
Folic acid plays a critical role in the prevention of chromosome breakage and
hypomethylation of DNA. This activity is compromised when Vitamin B12 (B12) …

Chromosomal aberrations in lymphocytes predict human cancer independently of exposure to carcinogens

S Bonassi, L Hagmar, U Strömberg, AH Montagud… - Cancer Research, 2000 - AACR
An increased risk of cancer in healthy individuals with high levels of chromosomal
aberrations (CAs) in peripheral blood lymphocytes has been described in recent …

Chromosomal aberration frequency in lymphocytes predicts the risk of cancer: results from a pooled cohort study of 22 358 subjects in 11 countries

S Bonassi, H Norppa, M Ceppi, U Strömberg… - …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Mechanistic evidence linking chromosomal aberration (CA) to early stages of cancer has
been recently supported by the results of epidemiological studies that associated CA …

Chromosomal aberrations: formation, identification and distribution

G Obe, P Pfeiffer, JRK Savage, C Johannes… - Mutation Research …, 2002 - Elsevier
Chromosomal aberrations (CA) are the microscopically visible part of a wide spectrum of
DNA changes generated by different repair mechanisms of DNA double strand breaks …

Chromosomal aberrations and SCEs as biomarkers of cancer risk

H Norppa, S Bonassi, IL Hansteen, L Hagmar… - Mutation Research …, 2006 - Elsevier
Previous studies have suggested that the frequency of chromosomal aberrations (CAs), but
not of sister chromatid exchanges (SCEs), predicts cancer risk. We have further examined …

Genetic susceptibility to lung cancer: the role of DNA damage and repair

MR Spitz, Q Wei, Q Dong, CI Amos, X Wu - Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers …, 2003 - AACR
It has long been recognized that people differ in their susceptibility to disease. Some of
these differences are ascribed to the concept that heritable traits modify the effects of …