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Outcome in prostate cancer associations with skin type and polymorphism in pigmentation-related genes.
Carcinogenesis - 1 Sept 2001
Luscombe C J, French M E, Liu S, Saxby M F, Jones P W, Fryer A A, Strange R C
Abstract excerpt
Epidemiological studies have suggested that UV exerts a protective effect on prostate cancer. Accordingly, we determined, in 210 prostate cancer cases, whether parameters of exposure, skin type and polymorphism in MC1R, VDR and TYR were associated with the outcome parameters, histological grade, clinical stage and presence of bone metastases. We used logistic regression analysis, with correction for age and...
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