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Clinical and pathological significance of vitamin D receptor gene polymorphism for prostate cancer which is associated with a higher mortality in Japanese.
Endocrine journal - 1 Oct 2001
Hamasaki T, Inatomi H, Katoh T, Ikuyama T, Matsumoto T
Abstract excerpt
The purpose of this study was to investigate the TaqI vitamin D receptor (VDR) polymorphism in both Japanese prostate cancer patients and Japanese noncancer controls in order to determine if an association exists between VDR genotype with clinical and pathological risk of prostate cancer patients. This study involved 115 patients with prostate cancer and 133 male age-matched noncancer controls genotyped for a...
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