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Vitamin D receptor gene polymorphism in Japanese patients with prostate cancer.
Endocrine journal - 1 Jun 1999
Furuya Y, Akakura K, Masai M, Ito H
Abstract excerpt
Vitamin D receptor gene polymorphism was determined in 66 and 60 Japanese patients with prostate cancer and non cancer controls, respectively. In contrast to previous reports showing an association between vitamin D receptor polymorphism of a TaqI restriction fragment length polymorphism at codon 352 (genotype tt) and prostate cancer in an American population, the frequency of genotype tt is less than one percent...
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