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Pharmacogenetics of human androgens and prostatic diseases.
Pharmacogenomics - 1 Feb 2001
Novelli G, Margiotti K, Sangiuolo F, Reichardt J K
Abstract excerpt
Prostate cancer (PCa) and benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) are two common and growing public health problems in the Western world. We review here the recent biochemical and pharmacogenetic literature related to these two prostatic disorders. We focus first on constitutional ('germline') single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) at the steroid 5 alpha-reductase (SRD5A2) locus, which encodes the human prostatic (or...
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