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Prostate cancer associated with CYP17 genotype.
Pharmacogenetics - 1 Oct 1999
Wadelius M, Andersson A O, Johansson J E, Wadelius C, Rane E
Abstract excerpt
Androgens play an important role in the development of prostate cancer. Androgen regulating genes that show allelic variation may be susceptibility factors for the disease. One of these genes, CYP17, encodes the cytochrome P450c17alpha enzyme. It catalyses steroid 17alpha-hydroxylase/17,20 lyase activities at key points in testosterone biosynthesis. We investigated the association between a polymorphism in the...
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